I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Quote by Sally Ride
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I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
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Sally Ride Quotes
- I did not come to NASA to make history.
- For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did.
- The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
- Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
- The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
- 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.
- I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
- 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.
- For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
- I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis.
Best Quotes
- In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
- We come into the world with nothing and the purpose of our lives is to make something out of nothing
- I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.
- Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
- The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
- Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.
- Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
- The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.