Mars quotes
193 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off."
"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."
"Mars is the only place in the solar system where it's possible for life to become multi-planetarian."
"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."
"What kind of world is this that can send machines to Mars and does nothing to stop the killing of a human being?"
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"I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies."
"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."
"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."
"It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."
"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."
"The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth"
"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?"
"If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long."
"Mars, therefore, is not only uninhabited by intelligent beings such as Mr. Lowell postulates, but is absolutely uninhabitable."
"Thou art the Mars of malcontents."
"[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man."
"[I listen to] "Uptown Funk", Bruno Mars, sometimes even Nina Simone and Adele. Whatever comes up, whatever floats my boat, whatever makes me tap into something in me to just decompress - I listen to that."
"I do not foresee 'spaceships' to the moon or Mars. Mortals must live and die on Earth or within its atmosphere!"
"O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love-lit bower."
"Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well."
"The revolutionary breakthrough will come with rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable. We will never conquer Mars unless we do that. It'll be too expensive. The American colonies would never have been pioneered if the ships that crossed the ocean hadn't been reusable."
"Land on Mars, a round-trip ticket - half a million dollars. It can be done."
"You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases."
"Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!"
"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
