45 Neil Armstrong Quotes to Inspire You to Go Beyond the Impossible

1. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.” - Neil Armstrong

2. “That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” - Neil Armstrong

3. "Fear is not an unknown emotion to us." - Neil Armstrong

4. "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

5. "Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny." - Neil Armstrong

6. "I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises." - Neil Armstrong

7. "If you don't know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out." - Neil Armstrong

6. "In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand." - Neil Armstrong

7. "People love conspiracy theories." - Neil Armstrong

8. "Research is creating new knowledge." - Neil Armstrong

9. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” - Neil Armstrong

10. "Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10." - Neil Armstrong

11. "I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did." - Neil Armstrong

12. "Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird." - Neil Armstrong

13. "It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew." - Neil Armstrong

14. "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

15. "Geologists have a saying - rocks remember." - Neil Armstrong

16. "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

17. "Each book holds an experience and an adventure." - Neil Armstrong

18. "History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight." - Neil Armstrong

1. "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

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

5. "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

6. "I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn't I?" - Neil Armstrong

7. "A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there." - Neil Armstrong

8. "We were involved in doing what many thought to be impossible, putting humans on Earth’s moon." - Neil Armstrong

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

10. "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

1. "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

2. "Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead." - Neil Armstrong

3. "You've got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected." - Neil Armstrong

4. "Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine." - Neil Armstrong

5. "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

6. "How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well." - Neil Armstrong

7. "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

8. "Start at the end and work back." - Neil Armstrong

9. "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

10. “Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest that advances mankind. The search for knowledge is what brought men to the moon; but it took knowledge already acquired to make it possible to get there." - Neil Armstrong

11. “History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.” - Neil Armstrong

12. "There can be no great accomplishment without risk." - Neil Armstrong

13. "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

14. "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

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

16. "How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well." - Neil Armstrong

17. "There are great ideas undiscovered, breakthroughs available to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers. There are places to go beyond belief." - Neil Armstrong