I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONGDamn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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 view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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