Buzz Aldrin Quotes - Page 2

Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar examined, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked and even blasted. Still to come: Mars being stepped on.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.

It's real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that's not very honest.

A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.

Kids, help your parents if they don't know how to use a smartphone.

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

For every winner, there's a loser. And that person didn't really need to lose. They just didn't understand the game plan.

There's a historical milestone in the fact that our Apollo 11 landing on the moon took place a mere 66 years after the Wright Brothers' first flight.

My sister called me "Buzzard" when I was a baby - she couldn't say "Brother" so I've been Buzz my whole life.

My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.

Fighter pilots have ice in their veins. They don't have emotions. They think, anticipate. They know that fear and other concerns cloud your mind from what's going on and what you should be involved in.

The first footfalls on Mars will mark a historic milestone, an enterprise that requires human tenacity matched with technology to anchor ourselves on another world.

My own American Dream was to serve my country as best I could and make a difference in America - and in the world.

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way.

There may be aliens in our Milky Way galaxy, and there are billions of other galaxies. The probability is almost certain that there is life somewhere in space.

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

You are not going to change the minds of people who are looking for attention.

Sending a couple of guys to the Moon and bringing them back safely? That's a stunt! That's not historic.

To me, money is a commodity that a person must have to function, not a goal in itself.

There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.

I expected the unexpected and went [on the Moon] with an open mind. I think the visual scene was described by my words on first landing - "magnificent desolation." Magnificent for the achievement of being there, and desolate for the eons of lifelessness.

We feel that this stands as a symbol of the insatiable curiosity of all mankind to explore the unknown.

The urge to explore has propelled evolution since the first water creatures reconnoitered the land. Like all living systems, cultures cannot remain static; they evolve or decline. They explore or expire. . . . Beyond all rationales, space flight is a spiritual quest in the broadest sense, one promising a revitalization of humanity and a rebirth of hope no less profound than the great opening out of mind and spirit at the dawn of our modern age.

There's no doubt who was a leader in space after the Apollo Program. Nobody came close to us. And our education system, in science, technology, engineering and math, was at the top of the world. It's no longer there. We're descending rather rapidly.

The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.