Quotation.Cloud - A repository of notable quotations from across time and space

   

Authors by Last Name


Authors by First Name



Quotations about extinction

Elon MuskThere's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars, compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   earth  exploration  extinction  future  humanity  space  

Edward AbbeyHas joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

 - Edward Abbey

Tags:   courage  evolution  extinction  joy  survival  

Michel FoucaultIf those arrangements [the fundamental arrangements of knowledge] were to disappear as they appeared...then one cancertainly wager that man would be erased, like a face drawn in sand at the edge of the sea.

 - Michel Foucault

Tags:   extinction  humanity  knowledge  

Elon MuskTo our knowledge, life exists on only one planet, Earth. If something bad happens, it's gone. I think we should establish life on another planet -- Mars in particular -- but we're not making very good progress. SpaceX is intended to make that happen.

 - Elon Musk

Tags:   exploration  extinction  progress  space