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 ARMSTRONGGeologists have a saying – rocks remember.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
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It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
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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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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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Opportunities will be available to you that you cannot imagine.
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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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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 single observation I would offer for your consideration is that some things are beyond your control.
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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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This blowing dust became increasingly thicker. It was very much like landing in a fast moving ground fog.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
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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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