--- title: "3 Moon Thing Quotes by 3 authors" description: "Browse 3 Moon Thing quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Moon Thing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg" --- > [Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buzz-aldrin/nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-person-on-the-moon-the-only/) [Buzz Aldrin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/buzz-aldrin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg) > [Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-presented-itself-to-me-as-a/) [H. G. Wells](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-g-wells/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/h-g-wells-1122_adventure_why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-pr_974429.jpg) > [“Chester watched it shining clearly above the picnic grounds. Soon an astronaut would step down off the LEM of Apollo 11 and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-r-bufogle/chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above-the-picnic-grounds-soon-an/) [Quentin R. Bufogle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/quentin-r-bufogle/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d01/quentin-r-bufogle-17660_quote_chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above_1260244.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/#itemlist", "name": "Moon Thing Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Buzz Aldrin" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/buzz-aldrin/nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-person-on-the-moon-the-only/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and…” — Buzz Aldrin", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges him for ever to depart from happiness and security, to toil, to place himself in danger, to risk an even a reasonable certainty of death? It dawned upon me that there in the moon as a thing I ought always to have known, that man is not made to go about safe and comfortable and well fed and amused. ... against his interest, against his happiness, he is constantly being driven to do unreasonable things. Some force not himself impels him, and he must go.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "H. G. Wells" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-g-wells/why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-presented-itself-to-me-as-a/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/h-g-wells-1122_adventure_why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-pr_974429.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/h-g-wells-1122_adventure_why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-pr_974429.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/014/h-g-wells-1122_adventure_why-had-we-come-to-the-moon-the-thing-pr_974429.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit…” — H. G. Wells", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Chester watched it shining clearly above the picnic grounds. Soon an astronaut would step down off the LEM of Apollo 11 and plant his foot on what had once been hallowed ground. Science would intrude on what for all known time had been the sole domain of poets and dreamers alone: the moon. After that, well -- one thing was for certain: no matter what they found up there, it would never again be as easy for a father to tell his young son that the mysterious ball of light that appeared in the heavens each night was really just a hunk of old cheese floating in the sky. Nothing would ever be that simple again.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Quentin R. Bufogle" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/quentin-r-bufogle/chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above-the-picnic-grounds-soon-an/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d01/quentin-r-bufogle-17660_quote_chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above_1260244.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d01/quentin-r-bufogle-17660_quote_chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above_1260244.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d01/quentin-r-bufogle-17660_quote_chester-watched-it-shining-clearly-above_1260244.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Chester watched it shining clearly above the picnic grounds. Soon an astronaut would step down off the LEM…” — Quentin R. Bufogle", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/", "name": "Moon Thing Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/buzz-aldrin-954_asks_nobody-ever-asks-who-was-the-seventh-per_393850.jpg" }, "description": "Browse 3 Moon Thing quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Moon Thing sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Moon Thing Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/moon-thing/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```