Neil Armstrong Quotes

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.

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

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

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

There are places to go beyond belief.

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

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

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.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.

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.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!

That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

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

Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.