Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGNo 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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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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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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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Start at the end and work back.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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