My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration.
We will certainly see teachers, journalists, artists and poets in space. Whatever it takes to the be the best is what it will take to get you into space.
One of the most important things about the geology on the moon is your descriptions of what you see, comparing them to things that you've seen on Earth so that the geologists and the scientists on the ground would know what you're talking about; and then take pictures of them.
Am I willing to go to Mars? Yes, but I'm not willing to spend nine months getting there, then wait 18 more months until the planets align to come home.
I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.
Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.
The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece.
God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.
Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.