Quotes about future
future moon dancing
My friends they were dancing here in the streets of Huntsville when our first satellite orbited the Earth. They were dancing again when the first Americans landed on the Moon. I'd like to ask you, don't hang up your dancing slippers. Wernher von Braun
future home men
The first men who set out for Mars had better make sure they leave everything at home in apple-pie order. They won't get back to earth for more than two and a half years. The difficulties of a trip to mars are formidable. . . . What curious information will these first explorers carry back from Mars? Nobody knows-and its extremely doubtful that anyone now living will ever know. All that can be said with certainty today is this: the trip will be made, and will be made . . . someday.
future space-flight challenges
With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
future law uncertainty-principle
In the strict formulation of the law of causality—if we know the present, we can calculate the future—it is not the conclusion that is wrong but the premise. On an implication of the uncertainty principle. Werner Heisenberg
future forecasts
Never make forecasts, especially about future. Samuel Goldwyn
future moon thinking
Astronauts will remain the explorers, the pioneers-the first to go back to moon and on to Mars. But I think it's really important to make space space available to as many people as we can. It's going to be a while before we can launch people for less than $20 million a ticket. But that day is coming. Sally Ride
future justice long
As long as there is no trust and confidence that there will be justice and fairness in resource distribution, political positioning will remain more important than service Wangari Maathai
future rights vision
In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.
future echoes
We are the echo of the future. W. S. Merwin
future thinking inability
The future has become uninhabitable. Such hopelessness can arise, I think, only from an inability to face the present, to live in the present, to live as a responsible being among other beings in this sacred world here and now, which is all we have, and all we need, to found our hope upon. Ursula K. Le Guin
future ocean california
And if California slides into the ocean, as the mystics and statistics say it will, I predict this hotel will be standing until I've paid my bill. Warren Zevon
future age use
Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. Thomas B. Macaulay
future space earth
The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth. We are going to learn how to relate to the Earth and our own natural environment here by looking seriously at space colony ecologies. Rusty Schweickart
future who-we-are assumption
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
future choices growth
The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory Sunita Narain
future science thinking-about-you
I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn. Story Musgrave
future warrior wildlife
Born a wildlife warrior, die a wildlife warrior. Steve Irwin
future tomorrow
Let's go invent tomorrow! Steve Jobs
future gun civilization
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. Terence McKenna
future past men
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges. Ralph Waldo Emerson
future genius appeals
Genius appeals to the future.
future reality imagination
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do and want to do is projected in our imagination, quite outside ourselves, and into the future. We are attracted to what is already ours in secret. Thus passionate anticipation transforms what is indeed possible into dreamt-for reality.
future men immortal
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.
future men waiting
What men have seen they know; But what shall come hereafter No man before the event can see, Nor what end waits for him. Sophocles
future past looking-to-the-future
We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. Sophie Swetchine
future past long-ago
Lessons taught but never learned, all around us anger burns. Guide the future by the past. Long ago the mould was cast. Neil Peart
future adventure worry
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present. Marcus Aurelius
future people vision
We have a situation where we are rich really as a world overall, and yet we have the capacity to destroy ourselves, either through nuclear weapons or through environmental degradation, and we allow the life chances of hundreds of millions of people to be destroyed because we haven't found the will to tackle it Tony Blair
future thinking people
I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability going to suffer a reaction. With world growth, and population as it is, this reaction must increase
future long vision
Whatever the short term clashes between protecting the environment and eradicating poverty, medium term and long term it is clear. Unless we grow sustainably, at some point we face catastrophe
future space people
Space travel will be like every other business. There will be competitors. . . . Thirty months from now, I'm confident we'll be flying people into space. Richard Branson
future past history
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future. Robert A. Heinlein
future may each-day
Each day is a precious gift to be savored and used, not left unopened and hoarded for a future that may never come. Regina Brett