"I did not come to NASA to make history.“

-Sally Ride

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"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."

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"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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"Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing."

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"I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science."

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"For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences."

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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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"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we call it the present."

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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

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"Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages."

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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

-Desmond Tutu

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"History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are."

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"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

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