The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing. — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism.… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual,… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
