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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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The single thing which makes any man happiest is the realization that he has worked up to the limits of his ability, his capacity. It’s all the better, of course, if this work has made a contribution to knowledge, or toward moving the human race a little farther forward.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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 am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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