Ray Bradbury Quotes

Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there.

In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

I could have gone on flying through space forever.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity’s agenda for the future.

Humanity is not forever chained to this planet.

We are too good to make war our most successful enterprise.

With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.

Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war.

What inspires me is the universe.

There's a certain romanticism associated with exploration of space, which is one of the major factors why we'll continue.

Mankind is drawn to the heavens for the same reason we were once drawn into unknown lands and across the open sea. We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives, and lifts our national spirit. So let us continue the journey.

We're not sane enough yet to enter space until we learn to live together in peace on Earth.

What are we doing here? We're reaching for the stars!

I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough.

Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones.

For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, "the nations learn war no more.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.