earth - quotes

Anonymous

Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

Ronald (Wilson) Reagan, 1911-2004

was a 40th president of US

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

( Speech “A Time for Choosing”, 1964 )

Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980

was a Canadian author, educator, and philosopher

There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

Friedrich (Wilhelm) Nietzsche, 1844-1900

was a German philosopher

The Earth has a skin and that skin has diseases, one of its diseases is called man.

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955

was an US (German-born) physicist

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

Archimedes, ca. 287 BC-ca. 212 BC

was a Greek inventor, mathematician, and physicist

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth.

( from Pappus of Alexandria, Collectio )