Bernard M Oliver Inspirational Quotes (4)

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

The factor most ignored in discussing interstellar flight is the kinetic energy that must be invested in the ship to make its tons of matter move at a substantial fraction of the speed of light.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.