Lawrence M. Krauss Quotes

We must become a space-faring nation.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

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.

I believe that the only way that the human race is gonna survive is to start colonizing space and setting up colonies on the moon, and then space stations.

We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.

To place a man in a multi-stage rocket and project him into the controlling gravitational field of the moon where the passengers can make scientific observations, perhaps land alive, and then return to earth - all that constitutes a wild dream worthy of Jules Verne.

Science fiction was rocket-mad for about 40 years until aerospace hit a brick wall about 1970. I would not write off space colonisation or exploration completely, but we are profoundly ill adapted for going boldly into outer space.

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.

Not only shall we be able to cruise in space, …

I think the International Space Station is providing a key bridge from us living on Earth to going somewhere into deep space.

We need to move off the planet. And Mars is the next best place.

I came to dedicate my life to opening space to the average person and crafting designs for new spaceships that could take us far from home. But since Apollo ended, such travels were only in our collective memory.

It's time to open the space frontier to citizen explorers.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

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

I think we have a good chance of surviving long enough to colonize the solar system.

Look how far the human race has come in terms of air and space travel in the last hundred years. So in the next couple of thousand years, you've got to believe that we're going to be able to do all kinds of amazing things.

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System.

In order for us to have a future that's exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we're a space-bearing civilization.

When I was a kid, I just figured we'd be living on the moon by the year 2000.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

There is a potential to be a big explosion of what spaceflight is gonna mean to just an everyday person in the near future. I think it's very hopeful for our young people: all the exciting things that they could be doing in the future relative to space and space exploration.

2012 will be seen as the beginning of the frontier era in space.

Will we have a colony on Mars? I think so.

In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!