For my confirmation, I didn't get a watch and my first pair of long pants, like most Lutheran boys. I got a telescope. My mother thought it would make the best gift.
We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
There is just one thing I can promise you about the outer-space program - your tax-dollar will go further.
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.
It was very successful, but it fell on the wrong planet.