The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not… — Story Musgrave Copy Share Image
I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to… — 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
