Quotes by Gerard K. O'neill - Page 1

Is a planetary surface the right place for an expanding technological civilization?
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Civilization
Expanding
Surface
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Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Peace
War
Blame
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Don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Peace
Respect
Freedom
War
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More important than the material issue . . . the opening of a new, high frontier will challenge the best that is in us . . . the new lands waiting to be built in space will give us new freedom to search for better governments, social systems, and ways of life.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Issues
Land
Moon
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Moon
Numbers
Somewhere Else
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Clearly our first task is to use the material wealth of space to solve the urgent problems we now face on Earth: to bring the poverty-stricken segments of the world up to a decent living standard, without recourse to war or punitive action against those already in material comfort; to provide for a maturing civilization the basic energy vital to its survival.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Space
War
Civilization
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Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Respect
Freedom
Expression
Rights
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The fatalism of the limits-to-growth alternative is reasonable only if one ignores all the resources beyond our atmosphere, resources thousands of times greater than we could ever obtain from our beleaguered Earth. As expressed very beautifully in the language of House Concurrent Resolution 451, 'This tiny Earth is not humanity's prison, is not a closed and dwindling resource, but is in fact only part of a vast system rich in opportunities...'
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Opportunity
Space
House
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It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of humans off-Earth will ... make human life forever unkillable, removing it from the endangered species list, where it now stands on a fragile Earth overarmed with nuclear weapons. Second, the opening of virtually unlimited new land areas in space will reduce territorial pressures and therefore diminish warfare on Earth itself.
Gerard K. O'neill / Physicist
Space
Land
Self
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