Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGIn much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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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 one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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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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Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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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