Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
NEIL ARMSTRONGWell, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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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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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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.
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Shoot for the stars but if you happen to miss shoot for the moon instead.
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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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Research is creating new knowledge.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
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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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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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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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