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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNo 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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 was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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