Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYeah, 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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 importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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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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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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