He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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 importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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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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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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