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Shannon Lucid

"When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science."

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Donna Grant

"Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes."

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Donna Grant

"The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science."

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Donna Grant

"The important concept of the solar wind is that Space is not empty. It is an energy and particle filled environment that interacts with whatever is in it! Astronomers call this 'Dark Energy'."

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Donna Grant

"You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments."

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Donna Grant

"The vitamin, mineral, metal and oil content of the human body drastically alters its reactivity to radiation exposures."

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Donna Grant

"You squeeze the eyedropper, and a drop of pond water drips out onto the microscope stage. You look at the projected image. The drop is full of life - strange beings swimming, crawling, tumbling; high dramas of pursuit and escape, triumph and tragedy. This is a world populated by beings far more exotic than in any science fiction movie..."

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Donna Grant

"What is salvation for humans? The answer is simple: Salvation is to perpetuate our existence via science!"

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Donna Grant

"There are more things in our biology that make us one, than there are to set us apart."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"There can never be a conflict between science and religion, once you understand the spiritual knack of the human brain circuits."

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Shannon Lucid
"It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it."

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Shannon Lucid
"It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out."

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Shannon Lucid
"When I got my PhD, it was a time when there were just no jobs for PhDs. Period. PhDs were getting the lowest paid technician jobs, if they were lucky, in any kind of science."

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Shannon Lucid
"Sometimes people here can get so focused on, Oh, I've got to get a flight, that it becomes the end all of everything. Then they go off and fly a couple of flights and they think, Okay, is that all there is in life? No, it's not. There's a whole big life out there."

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Shannon Lucid
"Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess I just didn't pay any attention. I just went ahead and did what I could and then, when the stars aligned, I was ready."

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Shannon Lucid
"If you look at the whole thing, I think the most gratifying thing is my kids, without a doubt."

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Shannon Lucid
"I try to tell the people that are sort of new here when they come in and do their flights and whatever, the things that you remember most after your flights are the interactions you've had with your crew. Those are the most satisfying things you take away from a flight."

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Shannon Lucid
"I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree."

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Shannon Lucid
"I think that over the years, whether they want to admit it or not, people have to admit that the women astronauts have performed just as well as the men astronauts."

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