A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHouston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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