Jay's Fruit Diet - Update

Jose wrote:
"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 have a feeling that whoever did say it was saying it in jest, and in
jest it would not be sad if Armstrong said it.

Jose

I just can't resist a challenge. The first 3 pages of Google hits do
seem to back up Armstrong as a source, unlike an awful lot of wit
wrongly attributed to George Carlin, Erma Bombeck and Andy Rooney - most
of those erroneous.

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"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 just can't resist a challenge. The first 3 pages of Google hits do seem
to back up Armstrong as a source,

There are tons of sites that attribute the quote to him, but I didn't notice
any sites that said anything about what makes them think he said it. Did you
find that information anywhere?

Thanks,
Gary

"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