"I was a kind of a one-man army. I could solder circuits together, I could turn out things on the lathe, I could work with rockets and balloons. I'm a kind of a hybrid between an engineer and a physicist and astronomer."

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Source : "Grounded in Space Science". "The Christian Science Monitor" Newspaper, (p. 14), December 22, 1989.

James Van Allen

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“A wedding is no way to begin a marriage.”

Source : Lois Greiman (2007). “Unmanned”, p.42, Dell
“I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!”
“We always speak very bluntly with father [Donald Trump]. But in the end I think the things that he's saying are things that need to be said. They're conversations that need to be had. There conversations that haven't been had.”

Source : Source: www.foxnews.com
“I do more work in Britain than I do anywhere else in the world.”
“We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.”
“Only you can allow yourself to be angry.”
“The most effective solution is to vote! Vote the climate-change-deniers out of office. Then, for John Q. Public, it's all about energy conservation: use less, because most of what we're consuming is from fossilized carbon!”
“Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

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