#the moon

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#abyss #cross #disastrous #discovery #gain

Some ways of using our thinking are really inspiring. There are people who use their thinking to race cars. People use their thinking to build rockets to the moon. It's all just a use of your thinking. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#cars #inspiring #just #moon #our

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#earth #expand #fiction #human #mars

Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there. ↗

— Ron Paul

#i #i think #maybe #moon #politicians

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#being #darkness #daylight #into #moon

Drag me to the moon, to catch a star and seize its brilliance as I'm swept up in amorphous dust. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#brilliance #catch #drag #dust #i

I think I was very interested in the space program as a kid, watching the first Apollo missions to the moon, and it's something I thought that would be a lot of, of fun and exciting and a very worthwhile job. ↗

— Mark Kelly

#exciting #first #fun #i #i think

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#entire nation #going #him #man #moon

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#country #hundreds #me #moon #people