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Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
My parents were comfortable with me exploring areas that they were not proficient in. Some parents just aren't comfortable with that.
Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.
I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
The future never just happened. It was created.
I always knew I'd go to space.
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
Greatness can be captured in one word: lifestyle. Life is God's gift to you, style is what you make of it.
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have never been involved in exploring the heavens, but this is not so. Ancient African empires - Mali, Songhai, Egypt - had scientists, astronomers. The fact is that space and its resources belong to all of us, not to any one group.
Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.
What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.
You have the right to be involved. You have something important to contribute, and you have to take the risk to contribute it.
