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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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 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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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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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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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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