Flight to Mars

Professor Jackson:
I'm considered a scholar, but unfortunately that hasn't made me rich.

Steve Abbott:
Dr. Lane, I once heard of a man who climbed a higher mountain than anyone else alive, but he was never able to get down again. What's left of him is still up there.

Dr. Lane:
The point is, Steve, he made it.

Steve Abbott:
[looking at the Earth through the port hole of the spaceship] Ah, the Earth seems so big when you're on it... from out here so small and nothing. It's like closing your eyes in the dark and suddenly you're alone with your soul.

Dr. Jim Barker:
I think maybe we'll play a little bridge.

Dr. Lane:
Bridge? If you introduce that game on this planet, people will never forgive you.

Steve Abbott:
[playing solitaire] How many years you've been in love with him?

Carol Stafford:
[tearfully] Three.

Steve Abbott:
How many tears do you think it'll take to wash out three years.

Carol Stafford:
[as Terris is showing off the conveniences of a Martian apartment] What I want to see is the kitchen.

Terris:
The kitchen?

Carol Stafford:
Yes, where food is prepared.

Terris:
Oh, we don't have kitchens. We call it the food laboratory, and we have a large one for each district. You order your food. It is delivered ready to be served.

Carol Stafford:
This is a woman's paradise.

Terris:
As a matter of fact, I assumed you might be hungry and ordered some things for you. They should be here by now. [she presses a button and a caddy full of drinks and food comes out of the wall] Everything is here waiting to be eaten. When you're finished, you just put everything back, close it up, and press this button. That's all there is to it!

Carol Stafford:
No dishwashing?

Terris:
Well, that's all taken care of mechanically.

Carol Stafford:
Terris, I love you!

Dr. Jim Barker:
What happens to us when we die?

Dr. Lane:
The whole Universe dies. Just as the Universe in which we ourselves live may someday be no more. But there are endless Universes beyond our own.