Neil Armstrong Quotes

Neil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor. Before becoming an astronaut, Armstrong was an officer in the U.S. Navy and served in the Korean War. After the war, he earned his bachelor's degree at Purdue University and served as a test pilot at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) High-Speed Flight Station, where he logged over 900 flights. He later completed graduate studies at the University of Southern California.
        

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

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

    
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.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
    
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
    
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.
    
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.
    
Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
    
Research is creating new knowledge.
    
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.
    
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.
    
Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.
    
Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
    
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.
    
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 thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
    
I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.
    
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
    
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
    
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.
    
The Eagle has landed.
    
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
    
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 fort