Neil Armstrong Quotes

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

You cannot look up at the night sky on the Planet Earth and not wonder what it's like to be up there amongst the stars. And I always look up at the moon and see it as the single most romantic place within the cosmos.

The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.

The stars look the same from night to night. Nebulae and galaxies are dully immutable, maintaining the same overall appearance for thousands or millions of years. Indeed, only the sun, moon and planets - together with the occasional comet, asteroid or meteor - seem dynamic.

The lunar flights give you a correct perception of our existence. You look back at Earth from the moon, and you can put your thumb up to the window and hide the Earth behind your thumb. Everything you've ever known is behind your thumb, and that blue-and-white ball is orbiting a rather normal star, tucked away on the outer edge of a galaxy.

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Hello from above our magnificent planet Earth.

In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility.

Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars.

There are improbable things suspended in space, like the earth.

First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical.

All the nine-planet people out there: Get over it. There's eight.

At the age of eight, I bought my first telescope and would spend hours gazing at the moon and stars. I remember thinking what it must have been like when man first realized that we were only a very small part of the overall picture.

My interest in astronomy grew from the play 'Space' that I did, where I had to learn where my character was from. I had to study the stars and figure where everything was and how I got here and all of those things.

All the spheres revolve about the sun as their mid-point, and therefore the sun is the center of the universe.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I'm interested in the cosmos. I want to know what's out there and how connected we are.

It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.

My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.

I'm not really into sci-fi movies, but I'm into the science of space a lot. I love astronomy and thinking about the nothingness of the everythingness of space.

I'm working to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces that we inhabit.

We may have a tacit understanding of how our solar system works, but watching the sun disappear behind the moon reminds us of the vastness of space and the enduring mysteries of the universe we inhabit.