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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSpace has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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It’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.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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 was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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