Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
NEIL ARMSTRONGMan must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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 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 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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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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 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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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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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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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