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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Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
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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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In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
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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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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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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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As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed magnificent. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
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Pilots naturally fly the craft in such a manner as to take advantage of its good characteristics and avoid the areas where it is not so good.
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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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A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
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Space has not changed but technology has, in many cases, improved dramatically.
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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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No matter when you had been to this spot before, a thousand years ago or a hundred thousand years ago, or if you came back to it a million years from now, you would see some different things each time, but the scene would be generally the same.
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I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks but for the ledger of our daily work.
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