Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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 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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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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