Edgar Mitchell Quotes
Born: September 17, 1930
Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, transformed his cosmic journey into a profound mission of inner discovery. As an Apollo 14 astronaut, he experienced a powerful epiphany in space, realizing that the universe was not a cold void but a living, interconnected whole. This insight drove him to merge science with spirituality, founding the Institute of Noetic Sciences. His quotes on motivation and action urge us to look beyond the horizon, to recognize our limitless potential, and to act with the courage of explorers. Mitchell’s words resonate because they remind us that the greatest frontier is the human spirit, and the most urgent action is awakening to our place in the cosmos.
Edgar Mitchell Quotes (10)
"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty."
— Edgar Mitchell"I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real."
— Edgar Mitchell"My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator."
— Edgar Mitchell"Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time."
— Edgar Mitchell"I had studied at Harvard and MIT astronomy and a lot about the heavens and the star system and so forth."
— Edgar Mitchell"Death may simply be an alteration in consciousness, a transition for continued life in a nonmaterial form."
— Edgar Mitchell"We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there."
— Edgar Mitchell"I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base."
— Edgar Mitchell"We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s."
— Edgar Mitchell"We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation."
— Edgar Mitchell