I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him.

The best proof that there's intelligent life in the universe is that it hasn't come here.

Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered.

All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.