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.
NEIL ARMSTRONGMan must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
More Neil Armstrong Quotes
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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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I have been in relatively high-risk businesses all of my adult life.
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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress.
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I tell you, we’re going to be busy for a minute.
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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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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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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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The importance of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear.
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Research is creating new knowledge.
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.
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Now and then I miss the excitement about being in the cockpit of an airplane and doing new things.
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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.
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It doesn’t sound like there was time for the word on moon.
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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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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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