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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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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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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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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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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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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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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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG