Willy Ley

“The rocket will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”

“Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever.”

“The layman, unfortunately, is not equipped to decide on the merits of a controversy. He can only listen to the two sides and then try to make up his mind.”

“A pioneer is not a man who does something that has never been done; a pioneer is a man who does something that others have said cannot be done.”

“If, in the course of centuries, we colonize all of the available planets in our solar system, this will be done mainly by the force of necessity.”

“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”