#the moon

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#back #because #beginning #chance #curves

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#civilization #crisis #debt #enormous #environmental

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon. ↗

— Larry Niven

#decent #distant #enough #figure #future

If the guidance failed or started to stray or went somewhere we didn't like or the ground didn't like, I could flip a switch, and I could control seven, over seven and a half million pounds of thrust with this handle and fly the thing to the Moon myself. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#could #failed #flip #fly #ground

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do. ↗

— Bart Gordon

#before #certainly #chinese #else #europeans

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

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

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