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 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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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Start at the end and work back.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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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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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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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 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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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