I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGScience has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt 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 ARMSTRONGWe have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHistory will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSociety’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 ARMSTRONGThe 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 ARMSTRONGDamn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
NEIL ARMSTRONGI can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNo 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 ARMSTRONGMystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONGOpportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThis blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIf that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG