26 ordspråk av Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong
If there are any going, I will certainly be looking to take them.
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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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It will be expensive, it will take a lot of energy and a complex spacecraft. But I suspect that even though the various questions are difficult and many, they are not as difficult and many as those we faced when we started the Apollo (space program) in 1961.
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It will certainly be 20 years or more before that happens,
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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We would have loved the opportunity to take some time to enjoy it, but we had the inevitable checklist and experiments that had to go on. So it was back to business, back to work as soon as we congratulated each other.
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