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 ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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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 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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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 doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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