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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGI think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve.
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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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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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Geologists have a saying – rocks remember.
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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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 one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.
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Ever since I was a little boy, I dreamed I would do something important in aviation.
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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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If that’s there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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It’s different, but it’s very pretty out here. I suppose they are going to make a big deal of all this.
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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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There are places to go beyond belief.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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