Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
NEIL ARMSTRONGYou’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.
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In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival.
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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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If you don’t know who you are, a university is an expensive place to find out.
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It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
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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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Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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 importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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.
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I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
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