“As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.”

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.

People love conspiracy theories.

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

I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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

A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.

You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

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.

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.

If everyone chose love, this world would be magnificent. Always choose love.

how absurd human beings are and how magnificent.

It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It’s love.

I pray you, magnificent Sir, do not trouble yourself to return to us, but await our coming to you.

There’s something so magnificent about you. And as you love yourself, you’ll love others.

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

She plucked a feather from her magnificent wings and dipped it in ink. She wrote poems bled from her scars guided straight from the depths of her heart.