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.

Quote by Neil Armstrong

Topics: Neil Armstrong Quotes

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

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

The Eagle has landed.

The Eagle has landed.

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being...

Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being...

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight....

Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight....

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

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

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

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

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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

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

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I...

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I...

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD....

Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD....

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

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

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and...

Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and...

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of...

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of...

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially...

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially...

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north...

As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north...

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and...

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and...