Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.

Three Secrets to Success: Be willing to learn new things. Be able to assimilate new information quickly. Be able to get along with and work with other people.

All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary.

It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow through with the sciences.

Our future lies with today's kids and tomorrow's space exploration.

The stars don't look bigger, but they do look brighter.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

We need to make science cool again.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.

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Whoever controls the money, controls you!

The dream which is not fed with dream disappears.

I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life.

In principle, if you understood the mechanisms of keeping things repaired, you could keep things going indefinitely.

As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation.

I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.

Most of life's battles are fought inside ourselves, & our greatest periods of growth usually come during crises.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

The assets you want to buy are the ones people have to sell.