It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
-
-
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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 -
I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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 -
Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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 -
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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 -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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 -
If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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