I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

The Eagle has landed.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

People love conspiracy theories.

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon July 1969, A.D. We came in peace for all mankind.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of mans desire to understand.

Geologists have a saying rocks remember.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

There can be no great accomplishment without risk.

The view of the moon that we've been having recently is really spectacular. It fills about three-quarters of the hatch window, and of course we can see the entire circumference even though part of it is in complete shadow and part of it is in earthshine. It's a view worth the price of the trip.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

I became hooked on the idea of being able to shoot an image and process it myself, and end up with a product.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done.

Young actors often don't think of the consequences of doing nudity or sex scenes. They want the role so badly that they agree to be exploited, and then end up embarrassing family, friends, and even strangers.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

The difference between talking on your cell phone while driving and speaking with a passenger is huge. The person on the other end of the cell phone is chattering away, oblivious.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

The big battle at the end of DW isn't drawn from history, but it's influenced by history, certainly.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.