Neil Armstrong Quotes

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street.

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

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.

This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.

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

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.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky

No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.

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

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 ...

Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?

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

There are two of them up here.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform.

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

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

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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

I like the aspect of technology. For me to spin the way I do, I would have to carry five crates of records with me everywhere I go, which in this day and age would be like two hundred extra dollars in baggage fees. All I need now is a hard drive and a computer and I can rock anywhere in the world.

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.

It's a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.

The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man.

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.

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?"

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.

The Eagle has landed.

Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking ... Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

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

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

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.

There are places to go beyond belief,

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

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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.

Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically. A good example is digital technology where today's cell phones are far more powerful than the computers on the Apollo Command Module and Lunar Module that we used to navigate to the moon and operate all the spacecraft control systems.

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

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.

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.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

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.

For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink.

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

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 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.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

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

Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.

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

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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.