"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."

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Sally Ride

#College Quotes #Astronaut Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.”
“I have hitherto followed the lines marked out by the Theist in his attempt to prove that there exists a mind behind natural phenomena, and that the universe as we have it is, at least generally, an evidence of a plan designed by this mind. I have also pointed out that the only datum for such a conclusion is the universe we know. We must take that as a starting point. We can get neither behind it nor beyond it. We cannot start with God and deduce the universe from his existence; we must start with the world as we know it, and deduce God from the world.”
“To see you cry wasn't my intention. just let me make it OK, just give me one more chance to say.”
“I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.”
“Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that science can provide all of the answers. That is scientism and that is wrong. I don't think a billion buckets of science could speak to the problems raised by the Tea Party. Being a philosophical naturalist does not mean that one thinks that the only truths are those of science. I think the claim just made in the last sentence is true but I don't think it is a claim of science. It means that you use science where you can and you respect and try to emulate its standards.”
“I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.”
“Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.”

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