"Tinkering is something we need to know how to do in order to keep something like the space station running. I am a tinkerer by nature."

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Source : "NASAWatch.com Interview with NASA Astronauts Fincke and Chiao aboard the International Space Station". Interview with Keith Cowing, www.spaceref.com. October 19, 2004.

Leroy Chiao

#Running Quotes #Order Quotes #Space Quotes

“Smoking is the only honorable form of suicide.”
“Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.”
“None of us come to this earth to gain our worth; we brought it with us.”
“Roscoe Tanner seems to have found a way of making his service go even faster, so that the ball is now quite invisible, like Stealth, the American supersonic bomber which nobody has ever seen.”
“A theorist today is hardly considered respectable if he or she has not introduced at least one new particle for which there is no experimental evidence.”
“Where there is a will there is a lawsuit.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2014). “Self-Help”, p.156, Cambridge University Press
“Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.”
“Fight global warming! Be cool.”

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