Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSociety’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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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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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 tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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 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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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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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