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 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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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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 fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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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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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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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.
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Start at the end and work back.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Each book holds an experience and an adventure.
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