We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
Edgar MitchellRead
My view of our planet was a glimpse of divinity.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the profound realization of the beauty and divinity of Earth as seen from space.
Edgar Mitchell, an astronaut who traveled to the moon, reflects on his experience of viewing Earth from space. This perspective allowed him to perceive the planet not just as a mere physical entity, but as a divine and interconnected masterpiece of creation, inspiring a sense of awe and reverence for life on our planet.
In practice
In a speech about environmental preservation, one might quote this to emphasize the importance of caring for our planet.
We went to the Moon as technicians; we returned as humanitarians.
We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a community, which we have not even acknowledged that that community exists up until this point.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
I experienced an ecstasy of unity. I not only saw the connectedness, I felt it and experienced it sentiently. The restraints and boundaries of flesh and bone fell away.
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.
Whoever wishes to investigate medicine should proceed thus: In the first place, consider the seasons of the year and what effect each of them produces.
The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
Part of knowing how to think is knowing how the laws of nature shape the world around us. Without that knowledge, without that capacity to think, you can easily become a victim of people who seek to take advantage of you.
Taking mathematics from the beginning of the world to the time when Newton lived, what he had done was much the better half.
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