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Christa McAuliffe

"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

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"If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

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"Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world."

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"Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."

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"In our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas."Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."

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"The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it."

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"The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."

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"Psychology is more concerned with identifying the degree of mental disorder and less with its cure!"

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"A drop of water is not immortal; it can be resolved into oxygen and hydrogen. If, therefore, a drop of water were to maintain that it had a quality of aqueousness which would survive its dissolution we should be inclined to be skeptical. In like manner we know that the brain is not immortal..."

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"Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know."

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"Scientists have an expression for hypotheses that are utterly useless even for learning from mistakes. They refer to them as being "not even wrong." Most so-called spiritual discourse is of this type."

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"The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions."

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"The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle."
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"I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip."
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"My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for students on earth about life in space and on the space shuttle and conducting experiments."
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"If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came."
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"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."
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"I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people."
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"NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."
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"I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated."
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"We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!"
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"Space is going to be commonplace."
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