Neil Armstrong Quotes

I think the driving thing was curiosity about the universe. That fascinated me. I didn't think anything about being famous or anything like that, I was just interested in the concepts involved.

Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer.

If I didn't choose art, I would have become an astronomer.

We are probably nearing the limit of all we can know about astronomy.

One hardly knows where, in the history of science, to look for an important movement that had its effective start in so pure and simple an accident as that which led to the building of the great Washington telescope, and went on to the discovery of the satellites of Mars.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

I like the planets because they are real places that you can go to and send machines to. Faraway astronomy - galactic astronomy and extra-galactic astronomy - is really cool stuff, but to me, it's about destinations.

We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once.

Hubble isn't just a satellite; it's about humanity's quest for knowledge.

I've always been fascinated with science and exploring our world, from microbes to the solar system.

America's space program has been the envy and inspiration of the world. It has made landmark scientific discoveries that are a lasting legacy of this nation's greatness. It has studied Earth in ways no other nation can match.

The solar system is completely wide open. Almost anywhere we go, I'm sure we would learn a lot.

I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.

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

'Animal Kingdom' is a significant comet, and it's cast a tail. It's very hard to see anything post that happening without that.

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

Everybody thought I was a bit of an eccentric for wanting to be out there looking at the stars, but I still do.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

I have worn myself thin trying to find out about this comet, and I know very little now in the matter.

In the course of writing 'First Light,' I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

I have just gone over my comet computations again, and it is humiliating to perceive how very little more I know than I did seven years ago when I first did this kind of work.