“All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.”

“In future utopia will need to hurry to keep up with reality.”

“It [the rocket] will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven.”

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

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

“Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.”

“So imagine that the lovely moon is playing just for you - everything makes music if you really want it to.”

“I swear that girl was born with a pen in her hand, the moon in her hair and stars in her soul.”

“We ran as if to meet the moon.”

“Our reasons are not prophets When oft our fancies are.”

“...the ratings agencies' problem was in being unable or uninterested in appreciating the distinction between risk and uncertainty.”