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

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

As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed ... magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.

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

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

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

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

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

There are places to go beyond belief,

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

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

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

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

Houston, the Eagle has landed.

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

Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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

There are two of them up here.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Start at the end and work back.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky

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.

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

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

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

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

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

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

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

Research is creating new knowledge.

It's a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it's a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.

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

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

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

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Hey, we missed the whole thing.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

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

People love conspiracy theories.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

When you deejay a party, a good DJ's job is to take care of the crowd. If people want to hear Britney Spears, that's what you're supposed to do.

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

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

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 can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

The Eagle has landed.

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.

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.