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Aerospace Engineer Inspirational Quotes (617)

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With our present knowledge, we can respond to the challenge of stellar space flight solely with intellectual concepts and purely hypothetical analysis. Hardware solutions are still entirely beyond our reach and far, far away.
Wernher von Braun
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Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology and intelligence to a position of terrible power.
Paul MacCready
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If we drive down the cost of transportation in space, we can do great things.
Elon Musk
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You know, there's such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it's very hard to decide which side we're really on.
Barnes Wallis
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I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
Nevil Shute
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We didn't know the importance of home computers before the Internet. We had them mostly for fun, then the Internet came along and was enabled by all the PCs out there.
Burt Rutan
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If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.
John Carmack
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Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.
Frank Borman
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Physics is really figuring out how to discover new things that are counterintuitive, like quantum mechanics. It's really counterintuitive.
Elon Musk
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If we don't take care of our customers, someone else will.
Edgar Mitchell
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Neil Armstrong
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Looking back, nothing seems so simple than a utopian vision realised.
Wernher von Braun
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If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something better
John Carmack
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Our concerns sink into insignificance when compared with the eternal value of human personality - a potential child of God which is destined to triumph over lie, pain, and death. No one can take this sublime meaning of life away from us, and this is the one thing that matters.
Igor Sikorsky
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Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
Alfred Worden
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The creative conquest of space will serve as a wonderful substitute for war.
James Smith McDonnell
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While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.
Gordon Cooper
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The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative.
Elon Musk
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Sometimes I truly fear that I am losing my mind. And if I did it it would be like flying blind.
Howard Hughes
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Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems.
John Carmack
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
Neil Armstrong
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When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
Elon Musk
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It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound if that be so, we were certainly engineers.
Nevil Shute
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Intelligent beings from other planets regularly visit our world in an effort to enter into contact with us. NASA and the American government know this and possess a great deal of evidence. Nevertheless, they remain silent in order not to alarm people. I am dedicated to forcing the authorities to end their silence.
Gordon Cooper
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