Quotes about future
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. Wernher von Braun
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 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 pregnancy goal
It is said that the present is pregnant with the future. Voltaire
future pennies fantasy
As chairman of the Senate subcommittee responsible for NASA appropriations, I say not a penny for this nutty fantasy. William Proxmire
future looks human-nature
Everything that looks to the future elevates human nature. Walter Savage Landor
future happy-accidents used
The future is not what it used to be. Yogi Berra
future past two
There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere. Winston Churchill
future men land
And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds. William Winwood Reade
future opportunity inheritance
The future is not an inheritance, it is an opportunity and an obligation. William J. Clinton
future people giving
The new energy future is decentralised, entrepreneurial and needs people like you to say 'Give me a clean car, give me solar shingles to put on my roof - give me a clean future'
future helping-others making-a-difference
We cannot build our own future without helping others to build theirs.
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 guarantees behavior
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. Wendell Berry
future obsession granted
Our obsession with security is a measure of the power we have granted the future to hold over us.
future achievement challenges
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present Robert Kennedy
future motto
For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert." Robert Greene
future issues firsts
It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century. Robert D. Kaplan
future believe shapes
What you believe about the future shapes, informs, and determines how you live now. Rob Bell
future long vision
Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use, flexibility and long life Richard Rogers
future worship forget
Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that. Rumi
future tomorrow
Let's go invent tomorrow! Steve Jobs