The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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 guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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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 am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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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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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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