The ABC of our profession is to avoid these large abstract terms in order to try to discover behind them the only concrete realities, which are human beings.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it.

Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.