Encounter with Tiber Quotes

“A lot of times when you just don’t want to think about something, when there is nothing you can do and the waiting is just unbearable, it helps to demand a lot from yourself, to do or learn more than you thought you could, and just let your concentration get you through the bad time.”
― Buzz Aldrin, Encounter with Tiber

“It’s a bitter joke, but you’re right,” he said. “I suppose a species that all got along perfectly with each other would never make it to the stars, because they’d never argue enough to make their ideas work. And a species that thought everything through first wouldn’t get there because they’d never get around to it. So the galaxy will eventually be ruled by impetuous bickerers.”
― Buzz Aldrin, Encounter with Tiber

“Where fifty years before, a congressman’s standard move to get reelected was to talk about the programs he had voted for, nowadays it was to talk about what he had blocked, stopped, frustrated, investigated, or marginalized.”
― Buzz Aldrin, Encounter with Tiber

“We had this whole big beautiful place for discovery, and all we could think to do with it was wipe out everything that made it worth discovering.”
― Buzz Aldrin, Encounter with Tiber

“The IAU may go to the devil, and undoubtedly they have the address," Auricchio said. "I found it, I named it. No gaggle of fuzzy-minded internationalists is going to call my discovery after some stone idol or swaggering dictator. Now let's have an interesting question.”
― Buzz Aldrin, Encounter with Tiber