William Anders Quotes

In order to be stimulated or moved in the future, we probably have to go into space and look at our world from there.

I think that space exploration as a broad activity is the most important things that humans can do. I've always found it fascinating, interesting, compelling, and I have a drive to go out into space.

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.

I believe in the importance of flying in space and the research that we do.

Just speaking for myself, I think the return of people to the Moon has a lot to offer for understanding the formation and evolution of terrestrial worlds; so would the exploration of near-Earth asteroids by people.

We go across lands, we go across water. And then the next logical step was to start flying just over a hundred years ago and of course, now we're going to look up at the stars and say what's next, what's out there?

I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I'm in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

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

America can take man to the moon, and America can take men to Mars - and beyond.

What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth.

As a scientist, I want to go to Mars and back to asteroids and the Moon because I'm a scientist. But I can tell you, I'm not so naive a scientist to think that the nation might not have geopolitical reasons for going into space.

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

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 Exploration of Cosmic Space by Means of Reaction Devices

I think we know how to do Mars.

The boundary between space and the earth is purely arbitrary. And I'll probably always be interested in this planet - it's my favorite.

Anything that stimulates the public's imagination about the nobility and the importance of space exploration is something that I'm very excited to be a part of.

Yesterday, we sought telescopes good enough to see all the planets. Today, we seek vehicles good enough to reach them.

I've always been a fan of space exploration, and I filled our entire office with space artifacts.

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

There's something cool about being involved in new missions to other planets.

Exploration of closer planets will continue. Only after he exhausts all the resources here on earth will man go further ahead, which is when interplanetary travel may take place.

I choose to go to the Moon with artists. In 2023, as the host, I would like to invite 6 to 8 artists from around the world to join me on this mission to the Moon.

Absolutely the most fun thing to do in space and rewarding thing, in many ways, is to look back at planet Earth.