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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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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