Harrison Schmitt

“The Moon is a Rosetta Stone for the understanding of the early history of the terrestrial planets.”

“There is orange soil! It's all over! Orange!”

“The frontier is wherever men are not.”

“You're seeing a conspiracy where there is none.”

“The one thing I remember the most was the blue of our planet. It’s a beautiful, beautiful place.”

“I'm a geologist. I'm a scientist. And I see the world through those eyes.”

“As we leave the Moon at Taurus-Littrow, we leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.”

“The Earth is a very, very small object in a very large universe.”

“I think the legacy of the Apollo program is not only the lessons learned and the technology it created, but it was a great stimulant for risk-taking.”

“You just have to get out of the cradle. It's not that the cradle is bad, but you can't stay there forever.”

“Science is a tool, and we should use it.”

“There is no question that we are in a period of climate change, the question is what is the cause and what is the consequence.”