Gerard K. O'Neill Quotes

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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

Is the surface of a planet really the right place for expanding technological civilization?

Gerard K. O'Neill

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

Every star around us is a favorable target for human migration. You don't have to wait for just those stars that happen to have earthlink planets; they may be very few and far between.

Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard K. O'Neill

Gerard K. O'Neill

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Born: February 6, 1927

Died: April 27, 1992 (aged 65)

Bio: Gerard Kitchen O'Neill was an American physicist and space activist. As a faculty member of Princeton University, he invented a device called the particle storage ring for high-energy physics experiments.

Known for:

The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space (1977)
2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future (1981)
The technology edge (1983)
Elementary Particle Physics: An Introduction (1979)

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