Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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 never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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