History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIf you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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