Moonbase 3

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
I've always held that the last words of mankind will not be the secret name of God, but "What is this knob for?"

Helen Smith:
Make love, not science.

David Caulder:
Out there is a remorseless, implacable enemy; the most hostile environment Man has ever met. Now we must fight it together.

Michel Lebrun:
There is nothing more implacable than a weak man trying to be strong.

Peter Conway:
I can see that a tap for water is a great convenience, but something went out of the world when we stopped going to the communal well.

Peter Conway:
It is the coming of a new age in which I have no place. The new truths are not my truths. I think I am the perennial dodo. I belong to a thing like Athens, a mother of a mode of life which shall renew the youth of the world. A thing like Nazareth. Change is a delusion. It is of new things that Men tire, of fashions and proposals and improvements. 'Tis the old things that are forever young. I have no place here. It is time to leave.

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
[gesturing to Moonbase window] Look out there, all of you. What do you see?

Michel Lebrun:
The Earth.

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
And can you see your beloved France?

Michel Lebrun:
Yes, not clearly...

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
And can you see where France stops and Germany, Switzerland or anywhere else starts?

Michel Lebrun:
Not with the naked eye...

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
You cannot see that if the soil is as close to your face as this meaningless bit of cloth! [throws mini-French flag to the floor] It is only on maps that the colour of one country is different from the colour of the next.

Michel Lebrun:
There is nothing wrong with a man being proud of his own country.

Sir Benjamin Dyce:
There is everything wrong with it!