Neil Armstrong Quotes

• 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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• Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.

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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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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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• 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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• The Eagle has landed.

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• I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.

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• I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

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• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

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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 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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• 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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• Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.

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• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

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• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

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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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• 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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Neil Armstrong (37)

Birth:	5th August, 1930
Death:	25th August, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Astronaut, Engineer, Naval Officer, Professor

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