Some of the most exciting space education in the country is not coming out of Washington or New York or California or even Texas. It's coming from a place in Kansas called the Cosmosphere.

Curiosity is the essence of human existence.

We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.

I'm quite disappointed that I'm still the last man on the moon.

If you begin to think you're something you're not, you're looking in the wrong mirror.

Prepare for the unknown, unexpected and inconceivable . . . after 50 years of flying I'm still learning every time I fly.

I've been asked about UFOs and I've said publicly I thought they were somebody else, some other civilization.

We went into darkness after being in daylight the whole time on the way to the Moon. And then we went into darkness. And we're in the shadow... of the Moon.

Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long.

The mass gross absence of sound in space is more than just silence.

Nobody can take those footsteps I made on the surface of the moon away from me.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not necessarily of their own experiences.

Genius has oftenest been the pariah of his time, the unhoused god whom none cared for, unnamed till they whom he first promoted, enriched and honored, found it honorable to own their benefactor.

Evil alone has oil for every wheel.

I must confess that I too am a woman and that I am always prepared to applaud a woman who is more daring than I, and is equal to a man in fighting for freedom of behavior.

We wear the mask that grins and lies.

Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.

You don't let a historic site rot.

All women need makeup. Don't let anybody tell you different. The only woman who was pretty enough to go without makeup was Elizabeth Taylor and she wore a ton.