If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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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 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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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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