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John L Phillips Inspirational Quotes (35)

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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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My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.
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Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.
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Your God is too Small
John Bertram Phillips
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Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.
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Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
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It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
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Researchers can measure what kind of angles your legs take up during the day when they're just trailing around behind you in weightless conditions, and what kind of impacts you feel during your exercise. They're going to compare that with what we do on the ground.
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We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.
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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.
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In the 19th Century people were looking for the Northwest Passage. Ships were lost and brave people were killed, but that doesn't mean we never went back to that part of the world again, and I consider it the same in space exploration.
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Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
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No amount of anxiety or worry is going to make any difference to anything that's going to happen anyway, so why let yourself feel so heavy?
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When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
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It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
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When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.
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Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
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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.
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If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory.
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The refusal to be committed and the attitude of indifference can in fact never be neutral.
John Bertram Phillips
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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.
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Little pains In a due hour employ'd great profit yields.
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It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
John L. Phillips
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