Neil Armstrong Quotes

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

Perhaps it won’t matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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.

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

Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

I’m one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don’t doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

I 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.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

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.

It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.