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.

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

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

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

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.