Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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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.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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.
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Start at the end and work back.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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