141 Quotes by Neil Armstrong

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.

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.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

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

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

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

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

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