Neil Armstrong Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

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

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

Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.

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

There are places to go beyond belief.

How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.

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

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.

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

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 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.