Mars famous quotes
04-27-2025
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Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.
-- Agnes Repplier -
As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.
-- Alan Bean -
I guess those of us who have been with NASA ... kind of understand the tremendous excitement and thrills and celebrations and national pride that went with the Apollo program is just something you're not going to create again, probably until we go to Mars.
-- Alan Shepard -
I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable.
-- Alfred Russel Wallace -
Next time someone says, 'Where has big government ever gotten us?' the correct answer is 'Mars.'
-- Andy Borowitz -
By my reckoning, I'm about 100 kilometers from Pathfinder. Technically it's called “Carl Sagan Memorial Station.†But with all due respect to Carl, I can call it whatever the hell I want. I'm the King of Mars.
-- Andy Weir -
Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
-- Anne Enright -
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
-- Arne Jacobsen -
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.
-- Arnold Bennett -
A mathematician makes plans to travel backwards in time through a wormhole to a parallel universe when he can't even make it to Mars with the fastest rocket on hand today.
-- Bill Gaede -
Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota? South Dakota, you can live here.
-- Bill Kurtis -
If NASA is to reach beyond the Moon and someday reach Mars, it must be relieved of the burden of launching people and cargo to low earth orbit. To do that, we must invest more in commercial spaceflight.
-- Bill Nye -
I want to build a team that's invincible, so that they have to send a team from bloody Mars to beat us.
-- Bill Shankly -
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive.
-- Boris Johnson -
I really do like Bruno Mars. I think he's very good. And I love Maroon 5.
-- Bridgit Mendler -
I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
We could have human intelligence in orbit around Mars, building things there.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
The present inhabitation of Mars be a race superior to ours is very probable.
-- Camille Flammarion -
There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.
-- Carl Sagan -
A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?
-- Carl Sagan -
Whatever the reason you're on Mars, I'm glad you're there, and I wish I was with you.
-- Carl Sagan -
I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.
-- Charles Bolden -
I'm fully aware that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.
-- Colin Firth -
You may have heard this, that NASA discovered water on Mars When he heard about the water on Mars, President Bush said, 'Is it regular or unleaded?'
-- Craig Kilborn -
The ice caps are melting, which we see over and over again. Yeah, they're melting on Mars, too!
-- Dana Rohrabacher -
Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.
-- Danny Elfman -
The planet Mars -- crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms -- has long formed a celestial tabula rasa on which we have inscribed our planeto-logical theories, utopian fantasies, and fears of alien invasion or ecological ruin.
-- David Grinspoon -
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
I remember as a kid having the offer of a scholarship, that it was going to be like going to Mars, and deciding to stay in my public school.
-- Edward Norton -
We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars.
-- Ellen Ochoa -
Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done.
-- Elon Musk -
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids, in fact it's cold as hell.
-- Elton John -
Better confide and be deceiv'd, A thousand times, by treacherous foes, Than once accuse the innocent, Or let suspicion mar repose.
-- Frances Sargent Osgood -
Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.
-- Frans Lanting -
A mystery is a problem that encroaches upon itself because the questioner becomes the object of the question. Getting to Mars is a problem. Falling in love is a mystery.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.
-- Galen Rowell -
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.
-- Gene Cernan -
Man, only - rash, refined, presumptuous man, Starts from his rank, and mars creation's plan.
-- George Canning -
I know this song!’ Rosie laughed. ‘If you didn’t, that’d be the final proof that you’re from Mars.
-- Graeme Simsion -
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
-- Grant Morrison -
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
-- Greg Bear -
It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.
-- Harrison Schmitt -
A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.
-- Herbert V. Prochnow -
A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time.
-- Herbie Brennan -
I have always said, heard, that it would not be strange that there had been civilization on Mars, but maybe capitalism arrived there, imperialism arrived and finished off the planet,
-- Hugo Chavez -
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.
-- Isaac Watts -
We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
-- Jacque Fresco -
The wildest ride in modern crime novel exoticum. A novel so steeped in milieu that it feels as if you've blasted to mars in the grip of a demon who won't let you go. Read this book, savor the language-it's the last-and the most compelling word in thrillers.
-- James Ellroy -
I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
-- James Gunn -
Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.
-- James Laver -
About First Landing by Robert Zubrin: Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.
-- James Nicoll -
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar the world. That is why private opinion, and private behavior, and private conversation are so terrifyingly important.
-- Jan Struther -
President Obama is launching a new $6 billion space policy that will ultimately take astronauts to Mars. Of course, it's $6 billion and $45 if the astronauts have a carry-on.
-- Jimmy Fallon -
Ballroom dancing is like being on Mars compared to what I've done throughout my life.
-- Joey McIntyre -
So, Fabricius, I already have this: that the most true path of the planet [Mars] is an ellipse, which Dürer also calls an oval, or certainly so close to an ellipse that the difference is insensible.
-- Johannes Kepler -
For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.
-- John Frusciante -
Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.
-- John L. Phillips -
Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
-- John L. Phillips -
We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.
-- John Phillips -
I'm incredibly proud of 'Life On Mars' and 'Doctor Who.' They're just a blast to do.
-- John Simm -
Bruno Mars is pretty fashionable. Gary Clarck Junior, who was also in our ad with Jimmy Page, is a super super stylish guy.
-- John Varvatos -
What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?
-- Jose Saramago -
Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose, these are the things that mar or bless the sum of human happiness.
-- Joseph Fort Newton -
The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.
-- Joseph Wood Krutch -
Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore,
-- JWoww -
Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians. These parallel global warmings -- observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth -- can only be a straightline consequence of the effect of the one same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance.
-- Khabibullo Abdusamatov -
I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
-- Lactantius -
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
-- Larry Niven -
I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!
-- Lee De Forest -
Shut up," Morgan said, whirling on the woman and pointing the sword at her. "Shut up, you shrill harpy, before I aid you in doing so by means of a dozen ways you won't care for in the least." Adhémar's fiancée fell, blessedly, silent.
-- Lynn Kurland -
There is a pile of dead bodies behind the Mars Hill bus, and by God's grace, it'll be a mountain by the time we're done,
-- Mark Driscoll -
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.
-- Mark Lilla -
[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
-- Mary Roach -
I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
The first colony on Mars is not going to be built by a private company. How are you going to make money? You're not.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
Something bad happened on both Mars with its dried-up watercourses and Venus with its runaway greenhouse effect. Could something bad happen on Earth too? Our species currently turns row upon row of environmental knobs, without much regard to long-term consequences.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
It's going to be a bummer if Mars turns out to be like us.
-- Newt Gingrich -
From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.
-- Nicholson Baker -
The trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans. I say, the trip to Mars can only be understood through Black Americans.
-- Nikki Giovanni -
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
-- Noam Chomsky -
In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible.
-- Paul Davies -
We know more about soils of Mars than about soils of Africa
-- Pedro -
That Mars is inhabited by beings of some sort or other we may consider as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be.
-- Percival Lowell -
Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not akin to what we know on Earth as life? It is in this that lies the peculiar interest of Mars.
-- Percival Lowell -
I'm no expert on types of cars. As far as i'm concerned, you could send all the cars in the world through a compactor and shoot them out into the stratosphere and put them in orbit around Mars. Except, of course, the taxis that have to be at my disposal when I need them.
-- Peter Høeg -
When you talk about obesity, there's so many things that can cause that. It can be a medical thing, or down to the individual. There's a lot of other things involved than eating a Mars bar.
-- Peter Shilton -
The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ.
-- Pope Francis -
It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.
-- Ray Bradbury -
Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself
-- Richard Hammond -
Fifty percent of the United States of America is underneath the ocean. And we have better maps of Mars than those areas.
-- Robert Ballard -
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.
-- Robert Kagan -
Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue.
-- Sally Ride -
In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.
-- Sam Huntington
