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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGShoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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 think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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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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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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