Neil Armstrong Quotes: Known for taking the first step on the moon, Neil Armstrong, full name Neil Alden Armstrong, was born on August 5, 1930 in Ohio, USA.
Neil Armstrong Quotes
1. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” -Neil Armstrong
2. “I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.” -Neil Armstrong
3. “I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.” -Neil Armstrong
4.” 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
5. “Research is creating new knowledge.” -Neil Armstrong
6. “Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.” -Neil Armstrong
7. “If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.” -Neil Armstrong
8. “I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.”-Neil Armstrong
9. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
10. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
11. “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.” -Neil Armstrong
12. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
13. “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.” -Neil Armstrong
14. “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
15. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
16. “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” -Neil Armstrong
17. “The Eagle has landed.”-Neil Armstrong
18. “I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.” -Neil Armstrong
19. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
20. “The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.” -Neil Armstrong
21. “Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.” -Neil Armstrong
22. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” -Neil Armstrong
23. “Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.” -Neil Armstrong
24. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” -Neil Armstrong
25. “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
26.” 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
27. “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.” -Neil Armstrong
28. “People love conspiracy theories.” -Neil Armstrong
29. “All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.” -Neil Armstrong
30. “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
31. “I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.” -Neil Armstrong
32. “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
33. “In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” -Neil Armstrong
34. “I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.” -Neil Armstrong
35. “Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.” -Neil Armstrong
36. “There can be no great accomplishment without risk.” -Neil Armstrong
37. “Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.”
38. “History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.”
39. “I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?”
40. “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.”
41. “Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.”
42. “A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.”
43. “I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.”
44. “I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”
45. “It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.”
46. “You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.”
47. “I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.”
48. “If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.”
49. “Start at the end and work back.”
50. “It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.”
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