Walter Reisch quotes

“Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“Tired minds don't plan well. Sleep first, plan later.”
-- Walter Reisch

Source : "Fictional character: Sir Oliver Lindenbrook". "Journey to the Center of the Earth", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.”
-- Walter Reisch

Source : "Fictional character: Count Saknussem". "Journey to the Center of the Earth", www.imdb.com. 1959.

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“A scientist who cannot prove what he has accomplished, has accomplished nothing.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“There's no term to the work of a scientist.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“The ultimate aim of all science is to penetrate the unknown.”
-- Walter Reisch

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“Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.”

Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

“I was born by God's dear grace, in an extraordinary place. Where the stars and stripes, and the eagle fly.”

Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly

“Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.”

Source : Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.8, Bright Skylark Book Products

“We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and heath and wood to be torn away from the sides of the mountains, and the green mantle that lies near their feet to be lifted up; we may then see the muscular integuments, and sinews, and bones of our mother Earth, and so judge of the part played by each of them during those old convulsive movements whereby her limbs were contorted and drawn up into their present posture.”

“Tomer: “What's this?” Cabinet: “Wt's ths?” Wedge: “Cabinet.” Tomer: “I know it's a cabinet, but it's talking.” Cabinet: “...ts tlkng” Janson: “Oh that. It's the Catann Minister of Crawling Into Very Small Spaces.” Tycho: “He bet Wedge he could fold himself in the that cabinet, around the shelves and all.” Hobbie: “Never bet against Wedge. The Minister gets to stay in there until he admits that it was a stupid bet and that Wedge doesn't owe him anything.”

“Your belief system saturates the space around you.”

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.”

“I always knew I was going to die in space.”

“I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.”

Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.