#mars

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#building #discovery #effective #great #had

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws. ↗

— Robert Peel

#conscience #laws #marshalling #mold #nation

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#closer #day #every #every day #experience

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars. ↗

— John Phillips

#enable #establish #experiences #gather #go

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alzheimer #any #atrophy #best #could

In essence, I owe my career to Garry Marshall. There was no known reason for him to hire me for 'Pretty Woman.' ↗

— Julia Roberts

#essence #garry #him #hire #i

I almost feel like Mars has been taking care of me for all of these years. ↗

— Ann Robinson

#been #care #feel #i #like

Love hurts, love scars, love wounds, and mars. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#love #mars #scars #wounds