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 ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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