I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIf you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
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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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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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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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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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