1. “No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.” – Neil Armstrong
2. “Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.” – Neil Armstrong
3. “The Eagle has landed.” – Neil Armstrong
4. “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
5. “A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.” – Neil Armstrong
6. “The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.” – Neil Armstrong
7. “In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.” – Neil Armstrong
8. “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
9. “I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.” – Neil Armstrong
10. “I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.” – Neil Armstrong
11. “Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.” – Neil Armstrong
12. “Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.” – Neil Armstrong
13. “The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.” – Neil Armstrong
14. “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.” – Neil Armstrong
15. “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
16. “Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good. Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.” – Neil Armstrong
17. “Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.” – Neil Armstrong
18. “It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.” – Neil Armstrong
19. “Research is creating new knowledge.” – Neil Armstrong
20. “Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” – Neil Armstrong
21. “This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong
22. “People love conspiracy theories.” – Neil Armstrong
23. “I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.” – Neil Armstrong
24. “There are two of them up here.” – Neil Armstrong
25. “You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.” – Neil Armstrong
26. “Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.” – Neil Armstrong
27. “Hey, we missed the whole thing.” – Neil Armstrong
28. “Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.” – Neil Armstrong
29. “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind” – Neil Armstrong
30. “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
31. “History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.” – Neil Armstrong
32. “I believe that every human has a finite amount of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.” – Neil Armstrong
33. “There are people I’ll always love to listen to, and I’m always ending up discovering new songs by them, which is crazy. Like Stevie Wonder.” – Neil Armstrong
34. “It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.” – Neil Armstrong
35. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” – Neil Armstrong
36. “I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.” – Neil Armstrong
37. “Start at the end and work back.” – Neil Armstrong
38. “I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.” – Neil Armstrong
39. “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
40. “I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.” – Neil Armstrong
41. “In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.” – Neil Armstrong
42. “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
43. “Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.” – Neil Armstrong
44. “If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.” – Neil Armstrong
45. “Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.” – Neil Armstrong
46. “History is a sequence of random events and unpredictable choices, which is why the future is so difficult to foresee.” – Neil Armstrong
47. “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
48. “Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.” – Neil Armstrong
49. “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.” – Neil Armstrong
50. “I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” – Neil Armstrong
51. “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
52. “I guess because deejaying has become my job, I tend to listen to really horrible stuff on my spare time. If you heard my iPod you’d be like, “what the hell?”” – Neil Armstrong
53. “I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.” – Neil Armstrong