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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGResearch is creating new knowledge.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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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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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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People love conspiracy theories.
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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 strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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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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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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’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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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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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
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