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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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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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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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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 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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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