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 ARMSTRONGIt’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet 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 guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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