The rocket worked perfectly, except for landing on the wrong planet.

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.

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

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.

In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely or old fashioned. I think science has a real surprise for the skeptics. Science, for instance, tells us that nothing in nature, not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not know extinction. All it knows is transformation. If God applies this fundamental principle to the most minute and insignificant parts of His universe, doesn't it make sense to assume that He applies it to the masterpiece of His creation, the human soul?

If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.

We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.