I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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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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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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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.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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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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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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