“We pledge to fight 'blue-sky thinking wherever we find it. Life would be dull if we had to look up at cloudless monotony day after day.”
Source: The Cloudspotter's Guide
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Gavin Pretor-Pinney 2
British writer 1950Related quotes

“Day
Play
We play all day.
Night
Fight
We fight all night.”
Source: Hop On Pop

“Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.”
Source: Death Masks

“He will through life be master of himself and a happy man who from day to day can have said, "I have lived: tomorrow the Father may fill the sky with black clouds or with cloudless sunshine."”
Ille potens sui
laetusque deget, cui licet in diem
dixisse "vixi: cras vel atra
nube polum pater occupato
vel sole puro."
Book III, ode xxix, line 41
John Dryden's paraphrase:
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
Public comment to the US Oceans Commission, 2004 http://www.oceancommission.gov/publicomment/novcomments/helvarg_comment.pdf.

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”
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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]