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" It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. "

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" The fact that I was going to be the first American woman to go into space carried huge expectations along with it. "

" Space has always fascinated me. As a young boy looking up at the stars, I found it impossible to resist thinking what was out there and if I ever would experience space first-hand. "

Richard Branson

" In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off! "

Peter Diamandis

" Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go. "

" 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. "

Christa McAuliffe

" If India hadn't become a troubled space for me, somehow I wouldn't have any reason to write about it. So the fact that it's a lost love, or something, is why I keep thinking about it obsessively. "

" Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in. "

" When I'm up, I'm over-exuberant; when I'm down, I just wander round on my own. I have no middle space. "

Simon Sebag Montefiore

" If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely. "

" The people who built the space program - both Soviet and U.S. - were readers of science fiction. "

Gregory Benford

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" The decision to write full-time meant I couldn't afford to buy a house. A friend kindly offered me the use of his apartment in a thirty-six-story building full of newlywed couples in the southern area of Jakarta. I didn't like my working space at first, but the scenery and everything going on outside have worked their magic on me. "

" Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. "

" My brain is just so busy. I'm inattentive; I'm a daydreamer: the space cadet kind. "

" What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space. "

Erwin Schrodinger

" I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men. "

Christa McAuliffe

" It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well. "

" The whole idea of gravity curling up space, that is the epitome of what is going on in a black hole. I would've loved to have seen Einstein's face if he were presented with the data that we actually discovered such a thing, because he himself probably didn't believe in much of it. "

" And then when I went to Chicago, that's when I had these outer space experiences and went to the other planets. "

" A theatre is not a blank page for editorial, it is not a soapbox or a Tannoy system: it is a conscience that wakes with what is happening in the space, and wakes further still in response to what people are making of it. "

" The encouragement I got from Campbell was a quick check and praise. Once the Space Beagle was launched on its mission, it seemed natural for it to breed additional thoughts. "

" The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet. "

" You can't be on the cusp of innovation and at the forefront of technology if you're wearing blinders. If you don't have an exploration program where you're exploring your world here on Earth, underwater, and in space, then you're wearing blinders and handicapping yourself. "

Gwynne Shotwell

" It's such a long mission and we get to spend so much time in space... we're doing such exciting research. And I don't want to overemphasize the life science research, but as a physician the life science research that we're doing is extremely exciting. "

" We create the technology to connect the world. We are a large network company and not restricted to just the telecom space. "

" I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. "

" The thought of a limit to perceptual space and time staggers the mind. "

" I am always floating around trying to tend to everyone and be free while at the same time enjoying some space. "

" On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot. "

" You think of floating on a rock in space as so alien, but that's exactly what we're doing. "

" While social media skills were once a 'nice-to-have,' accreditation in the space is becoming a requirement for many of these job titles. Hiring managers and job seekers are realizing that printing stacks of resumes is turning passe, and social media is rising as the new way of generating real-time networking opportunities. "