Frasi di Gene Roddenberry

Eugene Wesley Roddenberry è stato uno sceneggiatore e produttore televisivo statunitense.

È noto soprattutto per avere ideato la serie televisiva di fantascienza Star Trek. Aviatore decorato durante la seconda guerra mondiale, è stata una delle prime persone a volere che le sue ceneri fossero disperse nello spazio, assieme a quelle della moglie Majel Barrett. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Agosto 1921 – 24. Ottobre 1991
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Gene Roddenberry: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Gene Roddenberry

Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, "Mission Logs: Year Five", "A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry", 0:26:09)
Contesto: 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. No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids — human beings built them, because they're clever and they work hard. And Star Trek is about those things.

“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.”

Gene Roddenberry

As quoted in In His Name (2010) by E. Christopher Reyes, p. 39
Contesto: 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. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain.

“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.”

Gene Roddenberry

As quoted in Can A Smart Person Believe in God? (2004) by Michael Guillen, Ch. 7 : Hope Springs Eternal, p. 90

“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.”

Gene Roddenberry

&quot;The Cage&quot; (Star Trek first pilot), spoken by John Hoyt as &quot;Dr. Philip Boyce&quot; (0:06:18) <br class="br">Cited in: Dubes 52, Surviving Katrina Before and After https://books.google.nl/books?id=wyySAwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA35&amp;dq=%22A+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%22&amp;hl=nl&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjsleOa8aHLAhUFIQ8KHdVnClIQ6AEIHDAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22A%20man%20either%20lives%20life%20as%20it%20happens%20to%20him%2C%20meets%20it%20head-on%20and%20licks%20it%2C%20or%20he%20turns%20his%20back%20on%20it%20and%20starts%20to%20wither%20away%22&amp;f=false, 2014, p. 35

“Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.”

Gene Roddenberry

Variante: No, ancient astronauts did not build the pyramids - human beings built them because they're clever and they work hard. And 'Star Trek' is about those things.

“The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

Gene Roddenberry

Shown at the end of the episode "Scorched Earth", no. 14 in the 3rd season of Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, first aired on February 7, 2000.

“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.”

Gene Roddenberry

&quot; Teaching Toward the 24th Century: Star Trek as Social Curriculum https://books.google.com/books?isbn=113558088X&quot;, Karen Anijar, 2004, p.38; quoted in Sweeney, 1995:8

“The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity.”

Gene Roddenberry

As quoted in Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World (1992) by Edythe Draper

“He was a chiseler who wanted a cut of outside money his cast earned, demanded to be called ‘master,’ and prohibited poor Nimoy from using a company pencil.”

Gene Roddenberry

William Shatner, &quot; Shatner: Roddenberry Was A Chiseler http://trekmovie.com/2008/06/02/shatner-roddenberry-was-a-chiseler/&quot; TrekMovie.com, June 2, 2008 <br class="br">About

“Time is the fire in which we burn.”

Gene Roddenberry

Misattributed <br class="br">Origine: The Delmore Schwartz poem &quot;Calmly We Walk Through This April&#x27;s Day&quot; http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/calmly-we-walk-through-this-april-s-day/ from Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems (1959). The line was quoted in Star Trek: Generations; Schwartz was given credit in the film.

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