"Studying whether there's life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there's something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That's something that is almost part of being human, and I'm certain that will continue."

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Source : "Tip A Forty Of Tang For Pioneering Astronaut And All-Around Awesome Person Sally Ride" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. July 24, 2012.

Sally Ride

#Mars Quotes #Pushing Quotes #Study Quotes

“I'd rather be number one on the worst-dressed list than number two on the best.”
“It’s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyle’s world.”
“I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.”
“We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Anything seemed possible, likely, feasible, because I wanted everything to be possible... Because I had no power to make things happen outside of me in the objective world, I made things happen within. Because my environment was bare and bleak, I endowed it with unlimited potentialities, redeemed it for the sake of my own hungry and cloudy yearning.”

Source : Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”
“To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere; it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings - a reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.”

Source : "Antoni Tapies". UNESCO Courier, June 1994.
“They want you to believe the Sun is hot. I urge you to ask yourself 'Have they ever touched it? Think about it.”
“But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasingâ€”a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.”

Source : "The God Particle, At the Heart of All Matter". ngm.nationalgeographic.com. March 2008.

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