Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEvery flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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 hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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