Neil Armstrong Quotes

We could raise prodigious cities and create nations, and explore the universe.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time.

The U.S. space program has mythologies attached to pioneering and conquering, but the Russian tradition is very different. In the Russian tradition, the ultimate goal of humanity was to resurrect all humans.

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

I think that the human race does command its own destiny and that that destiny can eventually embrace the stars.

Apollo was designed not to conquer enemies but to conquer ignorance.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature

Therein lies the greatness of man. Fear is never allowed to dominate that desire for greater knowledge and as long as mankind retains that spirit we will move forward.

I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.

Twentieth century man must boldly reach out... And purposefully strive to discover the hidden secrets of our universe.

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars.

I love talking about space, our society, and what the future holds for us as a civilization.

The opening of space to human development and settlement is the most important activity of the human species. From hope to health, from wonder to wealth, the environment, and the very act of living, space is the future.

With so much conflict in the world, space exploration can be a beacon of hope.

It says something very deep about humans and our society, something very good about us, that we've invested our time and treasure in building a machine that can fly across three billion miles of space to explore the Pluto system.

The folks at NASA really look at the world and try to envision how things can be better.

We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty.

... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space.

If you could meet your grandkids as elderly citizens in the year 2100 … you would view them as being, basically, Greek gods… that's where we're headed.

We want to push mankind's boundaries out a little further.

We must always take risks. That is our destiny.

And step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain of man.

Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.