When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. Eugene Cernan
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  1. Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars. - E.e. Cummings

  2. Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. - William Shakespeare

  3. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind - Neil Armstrong

  4. In presence of the Moon nobody sees stars. - Amit Kalantri

  5. When you come to look into this argument from design, it is a most astonishing thing that people can believe that this world, with all the things that are in it, with all its defects, should be the best that omnipotence and omniscience have been... - Bertrand Russell

More Quotes By Eugene Cernan
  1. To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true.

  2. We found out the Gemini spacesuit was, well, oxygen was flowing to keep me cool as well as to breathe, and it wasn't good enough. My visor got fogged.

  3. Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.

  4. After Apollo 17, America stopped looking towards the next horizon. The United States had become a space-faring nation, but threw it away. We have sacrificed space exploration for space exploitation, which is interesting but scarcely visionary.

  5. I do believe there is life in outer space. Mathematically, there has to be, and if you believe as I do that there is a creator of the universe, then how can we be so arrogant to believe he created life here and nowhere else?

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