NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. Its sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people. – Neil Armstrong
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
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. – Neil Armstrong
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of mans desire to understand. – Neil Armstrong
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper