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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHow 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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.
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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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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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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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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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