Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claude Nicollier

It is going to be an experiment of how it works, and I see I have all reasons to believe that it will work fine. But it's a short time. And we also have pushed the envelope here a little beyond what has been done in the past.

Wally Schirra

I have fought the centrifuge ever since. When I visited Star City in Russia, I told them, you guys don't need a centrifuge, they are a waste of time.

Duane G. Carey

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

Claude Nicollier

I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time.

Wally Schirra

In Mercury, you couldn't translate. You could just change attitude. But you were actually flying it like a flying machine in Gemini.

Claude Nicollier

In a way, what we do is not totally different from some of the tasks that will be performed for the assembly of the International Space Station.

Laurel Clark

I'm expecting to have a lot of fun. I'm expecting to be tired at the end. But I'm expecting it to be the experience of my lifetime so far.

Claude Nicollier

The computer that is presently on board is a relatively old computer that has limited capability in terms of its speed and its memory capacity.

James Newman

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

John Dunn

We're just trying to make sure that we're right there ... ultimately to protect people's lives. There's just a multitude of things that can happen.

Tina Brown

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves.

Tycho Brahe

There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.

John Carroll

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

Mario Theissen

I think it could be possible but in the end it's a sport.

Greek proverb

It is not possible to step twice into the same river

Tomas Vokoun

I don't feel any pressure. I don't think this has got anything to do with pressure. Sometimes you just play really well, and then get in a slump. Now is the worst possible timing.

Robb Felton

I'd like to see them as soon as possible and get them out. I'm sure they're probably going crazy, they're not used to being in a kennel.

Richard P. Feynman

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Richard P. Feynman

So my antagonist said, "Is it impossible that there are flying saucers? Can you prove that it's impossible?" "No", I said, "I can't prove it's impossible. It's just very unlikely". At that he said, "You are very unscientific. If you can't prove it impossible then how can you say that it's unlikely?" But that is the way that is scientific. It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

Bob Williams

If there was something someone wanted that we didn't have, we could usually get it for them in a day or two. We tried to make things as simple as possible for our customers. I think they appreciated that.

Manuel Pellegrini

It has come at the worst possible time. But we have other options.

Cindy Sheehan

I'll be back as soon as possible but we'll keep you posted.

Richard P. Feynman

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

Alan J. Heeger

I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Michael Holden

Ski jumping, from the scientific viewpoint, is a wonderful problem.

Terence McKenna

The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.

Amy Fisher

It was really interesting, ... It was scientific illustration.

James Smith

That's where I don't go, ... That's not a scientific question.

Harold Varmus

We were overwhelmed by the scientific community's response,

Sigmund Freud

The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.

Dick Vermeil

I don't know if there's a scientific way to do it.

Ed Wade

I think we need some space at this point,

Geoffrey Canada

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

Jack Berry

Hopefully, we'll be able to backfill that space.

Josh Smith

I'd like to see how space is. I'd like to float.

Robert Crippen

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

Robert Crippen

If you want to go into space first time on a new vehicle that's never been flown, you want to go with a pro.

Rebecca West

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Rick James

I try to make the audience forget all their problems -- for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

William S. Burroughs

Language is a virus from outer space.