Flying a 172 with Autopilot?

"I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats
and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a
street."
- Neil Armstrong

It'd be sad if Armstrong, a de facto ambassador for science, had said
something so baseless. Is there any evidence that he actually did?

I am ancienct enough to confirm that one of the original astronauts
said it. I (and most U.S. citizens alaive at the time) heard about
way back at the time it was said, because the media considered it
"newsworthy." Don't know for sure if it was Armstrong or one of the
others, but it definitely was one of those astronauts.

vince norris