I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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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.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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