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

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

Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.

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

Start at the end and work back.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

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

If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

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

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

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

Questing… is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.

I’d love to go on a safari – I’ve never been on a safari.

The open road is the wanderer’s wonderland.

Let’s go on an adventure, oh, the place we will go! and with you by my side, I am always at home.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn’t full of danger

I’d love to go and camp out and live in a tent in the middle of nowhere and see how long I could live and survive.

The open road is the wanderer’s wonderland.

The truth is – I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven’t had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?