Charles Bolden quotes
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“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind's first small step on a world beyond our own.”
-- Charles BoldenSource : NASA Administrator Statement on Neil Armstrong's Death, www.nasa.gov. August 25, 2012.
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“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — (Obama) charged me with three things. One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”
-- Charles BoldenSource : "Does the 'S' In NASA Suddenly Stand for 'Stupid'?" by Dan Gainor, www.foxnews.com. July 07, 2010.
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“It's highly improbable in the limitless vastness of the Universe that we humans stand alone.”
-- Charles BoldenSource : "Scientists: We're 'very close' to finding another Earth" By Suzanne Presto, www.cnn.com. July 14, 2014.
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“As long as there are history books, Neil Armstrong will be included in them, remembered for taking humankind’s first small step on a world beyond our own. Besides being one of America’s greatest explorers, Neil carried himself with a grace and humility that was an example to us all. When President Kennedy challenged the nation to send a human to the moon, Neil Armstrong accepted without reservation. As we enter this next era of space exploration, we do so standing on the shoulders of Neil Armstrong.”
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“I did grow up watching Buck Rogers and Buck Rogers didn't stop at Mars. In my lifetime, I will be incredibly disappointed if we have not at least reached Mars.”
-- Charles Bolden
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“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
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Source : Aaron Copland, Richard Kostelanetz (2004). “Aaron Copland: A Reader : Selected Writings 1923-1972”, p.32, Psychology Press
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“A divided heart loses both worlds.”
Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“I, a stranger and afraid, in a world I never made.”
Source : Last Poems no. 12, l. 17 (1922)
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