If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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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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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 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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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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