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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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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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