Bernard M. Oliver quotes
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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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“The sun and its retinue of planets drift as a group through the vast gulfs of space that separate the stars.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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“No one can deny the excitement of visiting another world.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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“Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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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.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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“Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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“In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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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.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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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.”
-- Bernard M. OliverSource : Bernard M. Oliver, Len Cutler (1997). “The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver”
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“A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”
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Source : Song: Where the Stars and Stripes and the Eagle Fly
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.”
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Source : Adam Johnson (2012). “The Orphan Master's Son”, p.41, Random House
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”, p.376, U of Nebraska Press
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