You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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Start at the end and work back.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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