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Neil Armstrong Quotations

Quotes From Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon

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Neil Armstrong Quotations - Quotes From Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon

Neil Armstrong - First Man on the Moon

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

"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."

"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."

"Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand."

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

"I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion." - USC 2005 graduation

Quotations About Neil Armstrong

"Better if he had said something natural like, 'Jesus, here we are.'”
Edmund Hillary, Commenting on Neil A Armstrong’s 1969 message from the moon, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Quotes Not From Neil Armstrong

"Good luck, Mister Gorsky!"

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