A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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