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"When you do something different, you are either blessed or cursed!"
"You're desperate, and so am I,' I said. 'Desperate people make stupid decisions all the time.'"
"Often you need to take some risk, but it must be a realistic risk, you can't take a crazy risk."
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"Making eye contact with adults while dressed as a clown is risky."
"In my experience, "what the hell" is generally the most interesting decision."
"Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand."
Explore more quotes by John L. Phillips
"My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration."
"A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression."
"Even with only two people on board, where maintenance is a large piece of our working day, we still have time to do scientific research. We have to be ready to support those Shuttle visits in a lot of different ways."
"The Space Shuttle will stop directly below the Space Station and Sergei and I will be looking out two different windows looking straight down at the Space Shuttle."
"After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't."
"We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig."
"It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected."
"I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density."
"It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut."
"Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge."
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