Al D'Amato Quotes

Mars does not belong to 'America,' nor to Earth, nor to human beings.

Going to the Kuiper Belt is like an archaeological dig into the history of the solar system.

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

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.

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

In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.

In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

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.

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.

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Jupiter, Pluto, pick a planet: we can go there. I just got a bit more work to do in the music industry, and we're going to space, baby.

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

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

I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.

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.

So much had already been done in space before that, it had all been documented and there were no real surprises in store for us.

It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

There are other planets besides the Earth and Mars. I'd like to remind you that studying Venus is vital to understanding life elsewhere.

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

I would love to do something with space. I'm obsessed with it. I just can't stop reading about it or watching videos about it or listening to TED Talks about it.

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.

It changes your perspective to be able to look out the window and see the planet. One of the thoughts that I had when I first got up here was, 'We really do live on a planet, and we are in a solar system, and we are flying through space right now.' I mean, this is something that you know, obviously, but to see the planet - it's amazing.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.