I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONGEver since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Start at the end and work back.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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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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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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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