Neil Armstrong Quotes

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• This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
• Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
• I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
• 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…
• Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.
• 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…
• Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
• 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…
• Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.
• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
• I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
• 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…
• I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.
• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in…
• Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.
• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
• Research is creating new knowledge.

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