First person to walk on the moon NeilNeil Alden Armstrong (August 5, 1930 – August 25, 2012) was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Armstrong Quotes
Neil Armstrong Quotes
- "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
2. "This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
~ Neil Armstrong
3."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
4."Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand." ~ Neil Armstrong
5."Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead." ~ Neil Armstrong
6."The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control. You can lose your health to illness or accident. You can lose your wealth to all manner of unpredictable sources. What are not easily stolen from you without your cooperation are your principles and your values. They are your most important possessions and, if carefully selected and nurtured, will well serve you and your fellow man." ~ Neil Armstrong
7."Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny." ~ Neil Armstrong
8."There are places to go beyond belief." ~ Neil Armstrong
9."You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected." ~ Neil Armstrong
10."Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying." ~ Neil Armstrong
11."History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight." ~ 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."Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." ~ Neil Armstrong
13."If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out." ~ Neil Armstrong
14."For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink." ~ Neil Armstrong
15."I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal." ~ Neil Armstrong
16."Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation." ~ Neil Armstrong
17."Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will share with you their philosophies, their concepts of the world, of humanity and of creation. You will learn about events that have shaped our history, of deeds both noble and ignoble. All of this knowledge is yours for the taking… Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well." ~ Neil Armstrong
18."I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it's not how you look; it's how you perform." ~ Neil Armstrong
19."As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory." ~ Neil Armstrong
20."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
21."A picture does a great job, but it's not nearly like being there." ~ Neil Armstrong
22."Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine." ~ Neil Armstrong
23."Research is creating new knowledge." ~ Neil Armstrong
24."I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow." ~ Neil Armstrong
25."I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful." ~ Neil Armstrong
26."In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival." ~ Neil Armstrong
27."The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national goal of putting Americans on the moon. The landing approach was, by far, the most difficult and challenging part of the flight. Walking on the lunar surface was very interesting, but it was something we looked on as reasonably safe and predictable. So the feeling of elation accompanied the landing rather than the walking." ~ Neil Armstrong
28."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
29."I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work." ~ Neil Armstrong
30."I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion." ~ Neil Armstrong
31."We would like to give special thanks to all those Americans who built the spacecraft; who did the construction, design, the tests, and put their hearts and all their abilities into those craft. To those people tonight, we give a special thank you, and to all the other people that are listening and watching tonight, God bless you. Good night from Apollo 11." ~ Neil Armstrong
32."We 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 Armstrong
33."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
34."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." ~ Neil Armstrong
35."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
36."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." ~ Neil Armstrong
37."People love conspiracy theories." ~ Neil Armstrong
38."Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?" ~ Neil Armstrong
38."Start at the end and work back." ~ Neil Armstrong
39."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
40."The Eagle has landed." ~ Neil Armstrong
41."It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew." ~ Neil Armstrong
42."In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand." ~ Neil Armstrong
43."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
44."I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did." ~ Neil Armstrong
45."Geologists have a saying - rocks remember." ~ Neil Armstrong
46."I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth." ~ Neil Armstrong
47."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
48."Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird." ~ Neil Armstrong
49."Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good." ~ Neil Armstrong
50."I am comfortable with my level of public discourse." ~ Neil Armstrong
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