Patrick Moore > Quotes

“Separate the people from the problem. Focus on interests rather than positions. Generate a variety of options before settling on an agreement; and Insist that the agreement be based on objective criteria.”
― Patrick Moore, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist

“in 1966 Valentina Tereshkova paid a visit to London, and I was asked to take the chair when she addressed a large audience in the Royal Festival Hall. Her English is fairly good, and she is utterly charming; as you may remember, she was the first woman to go into space. At that meeting, a very tough journalist from (I think) the Daily Mirror stood up and asked: ‘What qualities would you look for in a man going on a flight to the Moon?’ Valentina gave him a delightful smile. ‘Do you mean if I was going too?’ Collapse of journalist.”
― Patrick Moore, Patrick Moore: The Autobiography

“The most wise, righteous, and gracious God doth oftentimes leave for a season His own children to manifold temptations, and the corruption of their own hearts, to chastise them for their former sins, or to discover unto them the hidden strength of corruption, and deceitfulness of their hearts, that they may be humbled;(t) and, to raise them to a more close and constant dependence for their support upon Himself, and to make them more watchful against all future occasions of sin, and for sundry other just and holy ends.(u)”
― Patrick Moore, The Westminster Confession of Faith