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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSpace has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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No 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.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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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 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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
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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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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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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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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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The single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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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 am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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The regret on our side is, they used to say years ago, we are reading about you in science class. Now they say, we are reading about you in history class.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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