Garden on the Moon Quotes

“In the field of technology, simplification is always an enormous advance...”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“... the heritage of mankind is not the earth but the entire universe,”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“When, in the fifteenth century, some audacious mariners who had sailed from Europe discovered America, nothing seemed to justify such a venture in the eyes of their contemporaries. Today, however, we can see it has given birth to the twentieth-century United States. Don't you think the existence of the United States constitutes a valid reason for Columbus's wild scheme...”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“The moon, the serene moon, was creating a conflict of opinion in America almost as violent as the racial problem.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“No country in the world can continue to spend what we are sacrificing for the moon without rapidly being reduced to utter ruin.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“The man who eventually reached the moon would be traveling in a vessel made of earthly materials.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“You can ask a President to provide for two years ahead, maybe for twenty or even thirty years, but not for two hundred or a thousand!”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“To rise from the national level to the level of mankind, I call that progress. And that's what's so admirable. For a man to progress, once he has reached the White House-I wouldn't have thought it possible.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon

“The army had little attraction for him, but it afforded him the possibility of taking a great step toward his goal. After all, if the military saw fit to replace the body that he was planning to liberate from the earth's gravity with an explosive charge, this was a mere detail, at any rate so far as the preliminary experiments were concerned. Creative science should be able to take advantage, without remorse, of the substantial sums allocated by destructive folly.”
― Pierre Boulle, Garden on the Moon