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 can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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 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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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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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