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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGThe 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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People love conspiracy theories.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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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 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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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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