In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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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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I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
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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.
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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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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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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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The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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 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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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