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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGKnowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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 guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for 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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Start at the end and work back.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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 am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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