I Have Learned To Use The Word

For My Confirmation, I Didn't Get A Watch And My First Pair Of Long Pants, Like Most Lutheran Boys. I Got A Telescope. My Mother Thought It Would Make The Best Gift.

Science Does Not Have A Moral Dimension. It Is Like A Knife. If You Give It To A Surgeon Or A Murderer, Each Will Use It Differently.

In 1492 Columbus Knew Less About The Far Atlantic Than We Do About The Heavens, Yet He Chose Not To Sail With A Flotilla Of Less Than Three Ships. . . . So It Is With Interplanetary Exploration: It Must Be Done On The Grand Scale.

It Takes Sixty-five Thousand Errors Before You Are Qualified To Make A Rocket.

Development Of The Space Station Is As Inevitable As The Rising Of The Sun; Man Has Already Poked His Nose Into Space And He Is Not Likely To Pull It Back . . . . There Can Be No Thought Of Finishing, For Aiming At The Stars-both Literally And Figuratively-is The Work Of Generations, And No Matter How Much Progress One Makes, There Is Always The Thrill Of Just Beginning.