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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNo 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Start at the end and work back.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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 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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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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