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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIt’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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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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The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
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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 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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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