For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all.

There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.

There are flying grandfathers. But I intend to be an orbiting grandfather.

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!

I'm convinced that before the year 2000 is over, the first child will have been born on the moon.

Man belongs wherever he wants to go - and he'll do plenty well when he gets there.

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.