Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.