Quote by Wilson Greatbatch
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of ou

Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option. – Wilson Greatbatch

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When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? Thats why you have a radiator in your car in the first place. – Wilson Greatbatch

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car
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We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there. – Wilson Greatbatch

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Leadership
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The man who never in his mind and thoughts traveld to heaven is no artist. – William Blake

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I just dont see myself as a travel writer. I cant. I dont. – Robyn Davidson

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What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence. – George Byron

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Travel

What childishness is it that while theres breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around? – Elisabeth Bishop

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I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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In Washington, success is just a training course for failure. – Simon Hoggart

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When the wine goes in, strange things come out. – Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799