Willy Ley quotes

“The point to remember is that a giant leap into space can be a giant leap toward peace down below.”
-- Willy Ley

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“The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions.”
-- Willy Ley

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“Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.”
-- Willy Ley

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“Why should we try for space travel? It cannot be a substance of any kind that can be expected to pay. It can only be something intangible, not involving haulage, which is at the same time more valuable. There is something like that: Knowledge.”
-- Willy Ley

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“The younger generation of rocket engineers is just beginning. They are of the new generation to which space travel is not going to be a dream of the future but an everyday job with everyday worries in which they will be engaged.”
-- Willy Ley

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“Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

“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.”

“One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

“I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.”

“The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.”

Source : Twitter post from Apr 13, 2013

“The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls”

“My Dear Son... remember that you are accountable to your Maker for all your words and actions.”

Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams (1848). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: the wife of John Adams”, p.95

“You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln (1907). “The Lincoln Year Book: Axioms and Aphorisms from the Great Emancipator”, p.48, Library of Alexandria

“Remember kids, I have life insurance.”

“I remember my mistakes more than my success.”