If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
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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 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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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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 that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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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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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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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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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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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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 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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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