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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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