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Quotes by Astronaut
"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."
"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."
Time,
"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."
"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."
"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
"If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems."
"There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing."
Time,
"Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God."
"The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era."
"That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there."
"Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things."
"Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment."
"I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it."
"I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there."
"I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom."
"I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here."
"We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen."
Now,
"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"
"When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?"
"If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement."
"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
"My sympathies have always been for working-class people."
"It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of."
"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came."
"I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space."
"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."
"I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies."
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