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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.

Neil Armstrong

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Firework Guess Ledger Piece Recognize Work
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Matter Moon Science
If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Be Yourself Expensive Finding Plave University
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Class History Reading Regret
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 ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Science Technology
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Eagle Land
I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Engineer Pocket Protect Socks
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Done Moon Success
Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Advantage Avoid Characteristics Craft Fly Manner Natural Pilot
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Earth Planet Thumb
Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

One Liner Remember Rock
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Demostrate Forever Human Opportunity Planet Unlimited Vision
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Destiny Inspirational Man Understand Universe
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

Master Predict Science

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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