Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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