The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEvery flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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