The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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Society’s future will depend on a continuous improvement program for the human character. And what will that future bring? I do not know, but it will be exciting.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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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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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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