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.
Neil Armstrong

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
Neil Armstrong

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

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

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
Neil Armstrong

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

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

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

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

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


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.
Neil Armstrong

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

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

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

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.
Neil Armstrong

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.
Neil Armstrong

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

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

Research is creating new knowledge.
Neil Armstrong

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