Backgrounds Quote by Sally Ride Download Open image “For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds.” — Sally Ride ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Backgrounds NASA Science Time
The prerequisite that people have a scientific or engineering degree or a medical degree limits the number of female astronauts. Right now, still, we… — Julie Payette Copy Share Image
I think the question is, are there women and have there been women who want to do science and could be doing great science,… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed… — Shannon Lucid Copy Share Image
I believe that there will be women astronauts sometime just as there are women airplane pilots. — Nancy Roman Copy Share Image
NASA didn't give a crap what gender you were or what race you were. If you could do the math, you were valuable. — Theodore Melfi Copy Share Image
In my mind, the men and women of NASA are history's modern pioneers. They attempt the impossible, accept failure, and then back to the… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I've had young women come to me and say that before they watched 'Voyager' it didn't really occur to them that they could be… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Showing women being scientists on television can have a great impact on who actually goes into science as a profession. — Kerry Bishe Copy Share Image
It is not extraordinary that the extraterrestrial origin of women was a recurrent theme of science fiction. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The view of earth is spectacular from space. Most people imagine that when astronauts look out the window of the shuttle they see the whole earth like that big blue marble that was made famous by the flights that went to the moon. But the shuttle is much, much closer than those astronauts were. So we don't see the whole… — Sally Ride Copy Share
I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Anything from making a mistake on an experiment that would ruin some scientist on earth's experiment - career, potentially - to doing something wrong with the satellite that a country was depending on for its communications, to making some mistake that could actually cost you and the crew either a mission or your lives. So there is a lot of… — Sally Ride Copy Share
Women make up only 25 percent of the science, engineering and technology workforce... We are delighted to be working with NASA Ames to give… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit. — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
I think eventually private enterprise will be able to send people into orbit, but I suspect initially it's going to have to be with… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something! — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
There are lots of opportunities out there for women to work in these fields, ... Girls just need support, encouragement and mentoring to follow… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
We do not want to be reminded that it is we, the indigenous people, who are poor and exploited in the land of our… — Steven Biko Copy Share Image
When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background. — Jenna Morasca Copy Share Image
Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God. — John Wimber Copy Share Image
Eventually the consumer will come to appreciate the editorial point of view of every different brand. User-generated content without editorial oversight will simply be… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
I bring my classical training - some of it, but not all of it - and also my background and culture, to spirituals. And… — Kathleen Battle Copy Share Image
The acting background helped a lot when I started writing. I was training for it. In acting class they teach you about the stakes in a scene (and) what motivates characters. When you bring a scene to class - as an actor with your scene partner - you have to do everything. There's no producer, set decorator or anything like… — Carol Higgins Clark Copy Share
In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who… — William James Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic background and… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music.… — Billy Taylor Copy Share Image
We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
People from my sort of background needed grammar schools to compete with children from privileged homes like Shirley Williams and Anthony Wedgwood Benn. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
