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
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel. — Neil Armstrong
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
Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. — Neil Armstrong
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
I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine. — Neil Armstrong
I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did. — Neil Armstrong
It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. — Neil Armstrong
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it. — Neil Armstrong
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand. — Neil Armstrong
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet earth first set foot upon the moon. July 1969 ad. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong