It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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.
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