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1921–1991 United States
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 - October 24, 1991) was born in El Paso, Texas and spent his boyhood in Los Angeles. He is best remembered for creating the science fiction television series Star Trek and was one of the first people to be buried in space.
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The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.
Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004)
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will — and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain.
In His Name (2010)
The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.
Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992)
A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away.
I think God is as much a basic ingredient in the universe as neutrons and positrons . . . God is, for lack of a better term, clout. This is the prime force, when we look around the universe.
Star Trek speaks to some basic human needs: that there is a tomorrow — it's not all going to be over with a big flash and a bomb; that the human race is improving; that we have things to be proud of as humans.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
I do not belong to any church, but I do consider myself a religious man...part of the creative and intelligence behind life. Therefore, if we are part of God than our lives are not brief meaningless things, but rather have a great importance and significance.
One obstacle to adulthood needs to be solved immediately: We must learn not just to accept differences between ourselves and our ideas, but to enthusiastically welcome and enjoy them. Diversity contains as many treasures as those waiting for us on other worlds. We will find it impossible to fear diversity and to enter the future at the same time.
A Letter to the Next Generation (1988)
James T. Kirk: Space, the final frontier.
Time is the fire in which we burn.
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