Built Quote by Mary Roach Download Open image “A space station is a rangy monstrosity, a giant erector set built by a madman.” — Mary Roach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Built Giant Madman Space Space station Station
Building one space station for everyone was and is insane: we should have built a dozen. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
I've always thought space station is a great name. It should be like a gas station where we go for service and supplies before… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
Using material ferried up by rockets, it would be possible to construct a "space station" in ... orbit. The station could be provided with… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
We're using the space station as a test bed for some of the technologies that are going to enable us to work autonomously in… — Anne McClain Copy Share Image
It is incredibly exciting to be able to actually go and live on the space station after having worked so long on seeing the… — Shannon Walker Copy Share Image
A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now. He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him… — James Van Allen Copy Share Image
It's really a good feeling to know that we put this up there, that it's working, that all these people's plans that worked so… — Linda M. Godwin Copy Share Image
I think there's going to be a very sudden shift in people's perception of the International Space Station, because suddenly it's going to look… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
Whenever I watch a documentary about the space, I find the news in the world very funny and dull! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The International Space Station is a phenomenal laboratory, an unparalleled test bed for new invention and discovery. Yet I often thought, while silently gazing… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
NASA is an utterly fascinating place, and the fact that the buildings look so anonymous almost makes it more fascinating. You walk by a… — Moby Copy Share Image
“Rawson points out that although snakes can’t taste, they have a primitive sense of smell. They’ll extend their tongue to gather volatile molecules and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“As the number of Inuit who hunt has dwindled, so has the consumption of organs (and other anatomy not available for purchase at the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
For the most part, if somebody approaches me and says, 'I'd like to interview you,' who am I to say no, when I spend… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“If you look at survivable crashes, it’s rare that even half the emergency exits open,” says Shanahan. “Plus, there’s a lot of panic and… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“…he was doing a breath hydrogen test. If you know the amount of hydrogen someone is exhaling orally, it's a simple matter to extrapolate… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Viagra isn't the only drug being prescribed off-label for women with arousal problems. Los Angeles urologist Jennifer Berman told me some doctors are prescribing… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Sharing a room with a cadaver is only mildly different from being in a room alone. They are the same sort of company as… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never believe them because:… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“panel applicants at the initial screening were asked not only to describe the cat foods but also to rate them according to how much… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“* Kissing is a less aggressive form of bacterial transplant. Studies of three different gingivitis-causing bacteria have documented migration from spouse to spouse. Periodontically… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
“Nirlungayuk reached a similar conclusion. I tracked him down, seventeen years later, and asked him what the outcome of his country-foods campaign had been.… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords… — Midge Ure Copy Share Image
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Most startups are not just built for the person who is using them. When you do that, every now and then you get really… — Emmett Shear Copy Share Image
Call me the rap assassinator / rhymes rugged and built like Schwarzenegger — Raekwon Copy Share Image
Do we make ourselves into what we become or is it built into our genes, into the fate spun for us by whatever shapes… — Joseph Bruchac Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The dark ages still reign over all humanity, and the depth and persistence of this domination are only now becoming clear. This Dark Ages… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez Copy Share Image
When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Good churches are not built by bad men; at least, there must be probity and enthusiasm somewhere in the society. These minsters were neither… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
