You’ve got to expect things are going to go wrong. And we always need to prepare ourselves for handling the unexpected.
NEIL ARMSTRONGHe did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
-
-
In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
The view of the moon that we’ve been having recently is really spectacular.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul, we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
We have no proof, But if we extrapolate, based on the best information we have available to us, we have to come to the conclusion that, other life probably exists out there and perhaps in many places.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I can honestly say – and it’s a big surprise to me – that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Gliders, sail planes, they’re wonderful flying machines. It’s the closest you can come to being a bird.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I think if there was anything I learned from our skipper was that it’s not how you look; it’s how you perform.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
It’s a strange, eerie sensation to fly a lunar landing trajectory not difficult, but somewhat complex and unforgiving.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine sandy particles.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
He did it alone. We had a cast of a million.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
It never hurts to have friends around, so that’s why you’d form a crew.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Research is creating new knowledge.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
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.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet, and our visions go rather further than that, and our opportunities are unlimited.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.
NEIL ARMSTRONG -
A picture does a great job, but it’s not nearly like being there.
NEIL ARMSTRONG