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 ARMSTRONGSociety’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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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It’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.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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