Why does awk print the entire line instead of the first field?

I'm trying to learn to use awk but it's not behaving how I expect. Here's my trouble:

$ echo "Hello brave new world" | awk "{print $1}"
Hello brave new world

I expected to see "Hello", as this is the first field. Why don't the spaces count as field delimiters?

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