I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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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.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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