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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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