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
Topics: Exercise
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
Topics: Space
That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
—Neil Armstrong
Topics: Dreams, Space
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
Topics: Space
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
Topics: Prophecy
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
—Neil Armstrong
Topics: Understanding, Wonder
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