Bill Frist Quotes

America's love affair with traveling into outer space is deeply entrenched.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

Space is going to be commonplace.

We must still think of ourselves as pioneers to understand the importance of space.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

In spite of the opinions of certain narrow-minded people, who would shut up the human race upon this globe, as within some magic circle it must never outstep, we shall one day travel to the moon, the planets, and the stars, with the same facility, rapidity, and certainty as we now make the voyage from Liverpool to New York!

I actually want to go up into space.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

The future of the human face is space exploration.

I watched the moon landing as a boy, and I thought that was the most exciting thing ever, going into space, orbiting Earth and exploring other planets. That looked fantastic.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

You don't go into space just for the science. Economically, it is not worth it. I think the reason we should be in space is for the exploration; it's the human endeavour.

Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival.

By refocusing our space program on Mars for America's future, we can restore the sense of wonder and adventure in space exploration that we knew in the summer of 1969. We won the moon race; now it's time for us to live and work on Mars, first on its moons and then on its surface.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

But even in elementary school and junior high, I was very interested in space and in the space program.

Pioneering in space was something I would willingly give my life for.

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

I used to think about how nice it would be to visit the planets. Of course, I didn't expect to see in my lifetime what has happened. I knew it would happen some day, but it came along faster than I at first thought.

Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.

I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had no idea how to do it.

We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the increasingly beautiful pictures made possible by complex technologies. But whilst we have an overwhelmingly vivid visual understanding of space, we have no sense of what space sounds like.

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.