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

Research is creating new knowledge.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

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

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

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.

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.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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

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

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

It is a blessed bliss to live to be old.

It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

We don't even know how to rest anymore.

You're trying to make music, and then at the end of it you give reasons for everything.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

When you start comparing yourself to another man's mirror, that's when those negative thoughts start creeping in. My journey isn't anybody else's journey.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

In any society, the way a woman gives birth and the kind of care given to her and the baby points as sharply as an arrowhead to the key values of the culture.

Don't always come when you're called.