"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap."

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"I want to find someone on the earth so intelligent that he welcomes opinions which he condemns."

John Jay Chapman, American Poet

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"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance."

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"Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots."

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"No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world."

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"The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars."

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"Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient."

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"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."

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"In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory."

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"Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter."

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"The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light."

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"If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be."

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