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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.

Neil Armstrong

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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Class History Reading Regret
The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Amount Regret Requirement Time Travel Work
Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Eagle Land
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Attack Believe Difficult Goals Science Spirit Team Work
Start at the end and work back.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ending Hustle Motivational One Liner Start Work
I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Firework Guess Ledger Piece Recognize Work
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Achievement Demostrate Forever Human Opportunity Planet Unlimited Vision
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Book Creation Fire Imagination Meet Poet
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Blue Earth Eyes Giant Planet Pretty Space Stuck Thumb
Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Done Moon Success
Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Fly Freedom Joy Pilot
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Ability Capacity Contribution Father Happiness Human Knowledge Limitation Race Realization Work
Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Case Change Drama Improvement Science Space Technology
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Investigation Research Society Understand
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Bird Close Fly Machine Sail Wonderful
If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Moon Science Technology

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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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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