I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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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 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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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