You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGSociety’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.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.
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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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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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Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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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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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.
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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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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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It’s a great thing for a man to walk on the moon. But it’s a greater thing for God to walk on the earth.
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