Neil Armstrong Quotes

• Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to 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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• 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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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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• If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

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

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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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• 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 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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• Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

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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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• 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 my memories as long as I can remember.

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

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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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• That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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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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