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 ARMSTRONGDamn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of 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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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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