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 ARMSTRONGThe one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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No 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.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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