Lunar Quotes

41 quotes by 32 authors

Armstrong described the lunar surface as 'beautiful.' I thought to myself, 'It's not really beautiful. It's magnificent that we're here, but what a desolate place… — Buzz Aldrin
To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we… — Buzz Aldrin
All Science is necessarily prophetic, so truly so, that the power of prophecy is the test, the infallible criterion, by which any presumed Science is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frequently on the lunar surface I said to myself, 'This is the Moon, that is the Earth. I'm really here, I'm really here!' — Alan Bean
I think the one overwhelming emotion that we had was when we saw the earth rising in the distance over the lunar landscape . .… — Frank Borman
Women are affected by lunar tides only once a month; men have raging hormones every day. — Maureen Dowd
Cold air rises from the ground as the sun goes down.Â The eye-burning clarity of the light intensifies. The southern rim of the sky glows… — John Austin Baker
Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
In pubs across the land, the customers speak of little else but lunar nutation, especially since the moon is nutating at this very moment. — Tom Shields
This is a vast frontier that's going to take us awhile to understand. It was very lunar, desolated, isolated. — James Cameron
A map of the moon... should be in every geological lecture room; for no where can we have a more complete or more magnificent illustration… — James Dwight Dana
Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle… — Gene Cernan
It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving. — Neil Armstrong
Astronauts have been stuck in low-Earth orbit, boldly going nowhere. American attempts to kick-start a new phase of lunar exploration have stalled amid the realisation… — Paul Davies
In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of… — Layne Redmond
Samuel Beckett's 'Waiting for Godot,' billed as 'the laugh sensation of two continents,' made its American debut at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, in Miami, Florida,… — John Lahr
Easter occurs on different dates each year because, like the Jewish Passover, it is based upon the vernal equinox, that dramatic moment when the hours… — Tom Harpur
If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions,… — Immanuel Kant
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar… — Thomas Hood
What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. — Norman Cousins

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