Quotes by Neil Armstrong

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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.

Research is creating new knowledge.

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

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges.

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

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.

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.