“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” — Neil Armstrong Quote

“Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.”

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

“NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It's sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.”

“I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.”

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

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

“Surgical Anatomy is, to the student of medicine and surgery, the most essential branch of anatomical science, having reference more especially to an accurate knowledge of the more important regions, and consisting in the application of anatomy generally to the practice of surgery.”

“Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.”

“Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names afterwards.”

“There is no problem in science that can be solved by a man that cannot be solved by a woman.”

“Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.”

“Never ask questions with conditions attached, truth doesn't come with conditions applied, conditions don't come with truth applied.”