History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
NEIL ARMSTRONGScience has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
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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 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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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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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 believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I’m damned if I’m going to use up mine running up and down a street.
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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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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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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 was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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