Gerard O'Neill: Planet

Gerard O'Neill was Physicist, author, and inventor. Explore interesting quotes on planet.

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“We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable — the best site is "somewhere else entirely."”

Gerard O'Neill

The High Frontier (1976)

“Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?”

Gerard O'Neill

"Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?"-Stewart Brand interview July 1975 http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/CoEvolutionBook/Interview.HTML

“There's no point in going out into space if the future that we'll see there is a sterile future living in tin cans. We have to able to recreate in space habitats which are as beautiful as earth-like as the loveliest parts of planet Earth and we can do that.”

Gerard O'Neill

The High Frontier (1976)

Beauty , Future , Parting