I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONGGliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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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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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 importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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 put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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