Neil Armstrong Quotes

Hey, we missed the whole thing.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

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.

People love conspiracy theories.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there.

The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.

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

Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.

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

He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.

We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that ... other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.

I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I tell you, we're going to be busy for a minute.

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

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

Research is creating new knowledge.

I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

Houston, that may have seemed like a very long final phase. The autotargeting was taking us right into a ... crater, with a large number of big boulders and rocks ... and it required ... flying manually over the rock field to find a reasonably good area.

It's different, but it's very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.

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

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

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

There are places to go beyond belief.

Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.

If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking.

It doesn't sound like there was time for the word to be there. On the other hand, I didn't intentionally make an inane statement... certainly the 'a' was intended, because that's the only way the statement makes any sense.

I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you'd be like, "what the hell?"

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.

I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo [space program] in 1961.

There are people I'll always love to listen to, and I'm always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

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.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11.

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

I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecock that they're hitting back and forth.

The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It's all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.

Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.