"Whether you are an astronomer or a life……" — Alan Shepard
"Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back."
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Alan Shepard
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44 Quotes by Alan Shepard
Alan Shepard has 44 quotes on this site.
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Roger, liftoff, and the clock is started.
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Unfortunately, the suit is so stiff, I can't do this with two hands, but I'm going to try a little…
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Got more dirt than ball. Here we go again.
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Miles and miles and miles.
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Because of the suit I was wearing, I couldn't make a good pivot on the swing. And I had to…
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The suit was so clumsy, being pressurized, it was impossible to get two hands comfortably on the handle and it's…
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Then I thought, with the same clubhead speed, the ball's going to go at least six times as far. There's…
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If somebody'd said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the Earth from the Moon?'…
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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history…
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The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder
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I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot…
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I think the sense of family and family achievement, plus the discipline which I received there from that one-room school…
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Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the…
— Arthur Eddington
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Exact science and its practical movements are no checks on the greatest poet, but always his encouragement and support ...…
— Walt Whitman
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The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only…
— William Herschel
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For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them.…
— Unknown Author
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Just as the spectroscope opened up a new astronomy by enabling the astronomer to determine some of the constituents of…
— Unknown Author
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The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star…
— Unknown Author
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I cannot agree with any astronomer who insists that all of these things are mirages, planets, clouds, or illusions. The…
— Morris K. Jessup
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Astronomy's much more fun when you're not an astronomer
— Brian May
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The undevout astronomer must be mad.
— William Herschel
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Bach is like an astronomer who, with the help of ciphers, finds the most wonderful stars . . . Beethoven…
— Frederic Chopin
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
— Tycho Brahe
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Forty years as an astronomer have not quelled my enthusiasm for lying outside after dark, staring up at the stars.…
— Frank Drake
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