Neil Armstrong Quotes (34 Quotes)

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

These pilots were not involved in such exploration for adventure or to enjoy the view, ... They rocketed to these extreme altitudes to conduct research to learn about and advance the world of flight.

Between 7am and 8.30am on Tuesday 8 March, all of our broadband customers lost internet connectivity as a result of planned maintenance on our network over-running from its intended 4am to 6am window.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

I was delighted to be in that project ... but I don't think about it on a day-to-day basis -- probably only when you guys (in the media) remind me.

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

The Eagle has landed.

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

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

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird.

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

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.

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

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

It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens,

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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

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

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

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.

We would have loved the opportunity to take some time to enjoy it, but we had the inevitable checklist and experiments that had to go on. So it was back to business, back to work as soon as we congratulated each other.

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.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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

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

I was the strange creature that kidnapped Bock from his homeland and brought him to this strange new and still changing planet. I can't help feeling that I owe him an apology or at least an explanation.