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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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 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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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