Rockets quotes
102 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out."
"It's only rock and roll, my god! It's not rocket science."
"That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
"Making money is a common sense. It's not rocket science. But unfortunately, when it comes to money, common sense is uncommon."
"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."
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"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."
"A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!"
"I always see what’s... wrong. Would you want that? When I see a car or a rocket or spacecraft, I only see what’s wrong. I never see what’s right. It’s not a recipe for happiness."
"In the case of Apple, they did originally do production internally, but then along came unbelievably good outsourced manufacturing from companies like Foxconn. We don't have that in the rocket business. There's no Foxconn in the rocket business."
"What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars."
"It's not rocket science to make a movie."
"If you put somebody on a crack pipe and give them a 9 mm Baretta, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what's going to happen next."
"It ain't always rocket science, sometimes a door is just a door."
"We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent."
"Microsoft went into orbit because it had a booster rocket attached to it called IBM."
"The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket."
"This individual does not know where initiative ends and rocket-propelled idiocy begins."
"I realized that a methane-oxygen rocket engine could achieve a specific impulse greater than 380."
"I was way into space and planes. I had loads of model planes and rockets."
"Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science."
