Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

If we were to start today on an organized and well-supported space program I believe a practical passenger rocket can be built and tested within ten years.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.

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.

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

I only hope that we shall not wait to adopt the program until after our astronomers have reported a new and unsuspected asteroid moving across their fields of vision with menacing speed. At that point it will be too late!

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.