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"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."

"A hole is a space where everything has been moved out so that opportunity has space to move in."

"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."

"Become aware of the physical distance and spatial orientation that you experience while in the company of others. Being empathetic and sensitive to a person's physical comfort zone can have a huge effect on the way in which you are received and perceived."

"Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behavior, social interaction, and communication. Imagine invisible bubbles around every person that provides each of us with comfort zones for social engagement and interaction."

"We are aware only of the empty space in the forest, which only yesterday was filled with trees."

"It would take six months to get to Mars if you go there slowly, with optimal energy cost. Then it would take eighteen months for the planets to realign. Then it would take six months to get back, though I can see getting the travel time down to three months pretty quickly if America has the will."

"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."

"I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration."
Explore more quotes by James Jeans

"Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties."

"Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars."

"From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician."
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