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 ARMSTRONGThrough books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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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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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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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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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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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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