Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
NEIL ARMSTRONGShoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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Pilots take no special joy in walking: pilots like flying.
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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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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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Figure out how to build a brand and stick by it so people know what to expect.
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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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Damn I really did it. I blew the first words on the moon, didn’t I?
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Every flying machine has its own unique characteristics, some good, some not so good.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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History will remember the twentieth century for two technological developments: atomic energy and space flight.
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I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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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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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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It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
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