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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGPilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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 am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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 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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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