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Aerospace Engineer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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All flight is based upon producing air pressure, all flight energy consists in overcoming air pressure.
Otto Lilienthal
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Starting and growing a business is as much about the innovation, drive and determination of the people who do it as it is about the product they sell.
Elon Musk
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I'm increasingly inclined to think there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish.
Elon Musk
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Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.
Neil Armstrong
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As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] dimished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble and fall apart. Seeing this has to change a man.
James Irwin
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America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
Elon Musk
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The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far - the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We're obviously in a very upward cycle right now and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.
Elon Musk
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It's a fixer-upper of a planet but we could make it work.
Elon Musk
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A rocket won't fly unless somebody lights the fuse!
Homer Hickam
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It is better to confess ignorance than provide it.
Homer Hickam
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We built a jet airplane to get in and out of a 5,000-ft field. No one believed it could be done.
Joe Sutter
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If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.
Elon Musk
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It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.
Alan Bean
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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Robert H. Goddard
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Death is the handmaiden of the pilot. Sometimes it comes by accident, sometimes by an act of God.
Albert Scott Crossfield
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I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow.
Neil Armstrong
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There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.
Gene Kranz
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Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, Is this thing still flying? If the answer is yes, then there's no immediate danger, no need to overreact.
Alan Bean
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What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.
Wernher von Braun
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Certainly whatever climate change and global warming means, we've got a big issue here. Right now, this civilization or this period that we're in is probably going to need the resources off our planet, perhaps the resources from the asteroids, perhaps there will be some on the moon, perhaps some on Mars that we can utilize for our own uses here.
Edgar Mitchell
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There are two of them up here.
Neil Armstrong
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The best computer is a man, and it’s the only one that can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.
Wernher von Braun
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A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
Homer Hickam
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The people of Sydney who can speak of my work [on flying-machine models] without a smile are very scarce it is doubtless the same with American workers. I know that success is dead sure to come, and therefore do not waste time and words in trying to convince unbelievers.
Lawrence Hargrave
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