Story Musgrave Quotes

• Statistically it's a certainty there are hugely advanced civilizations, intelligences, life forms out there. I believe they're so advanced they're even doing interstellar travel. I believe it's possible they even came here.

  Historia Musgrave

  Believe, Civilization, Form

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• It is humanity's destiny to explore the universe. When we start thinking and working on that cosmic level, we will transcend our parochial differences and tribal natures and become global creatures, solar system creatures. Then we will figure out where we fit in.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Differences

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• I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

  Historia Musgrave

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Thinking

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Hubble touches people. When you're looking that far out, you're giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn't need translation. It's like poetry, it touches you.

  Historia Musgrave

  Science, People, Giving

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I work for perfection, for perfection's sake. I don't care what the external reasons are. And it's much more like a ballerina on opening night. You've done what you've got to do. When you go out, the purpose is to turn a perfect turn. You are not thinking about the future of the company, you are not thinking about your future, you're not thinking about the critics, it is you and the perfect turn.

  Historia Musgrave

  Future, Science, Thinking About You

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Si alguna vez empezamos a comunicarnos con seres vivos de otros planetas, la prioridad número uno es: ¿cómo se va a comunicar la información? Incluso entre culturas diferentes de la Tierra surgen problemas de comunicación.

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  Communication, Numbers, Priorities

  Academy of Archievment interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Yo procedía de una familia extraordinariamente disfuncional, llena de abusos y alcoholismo. Y al final todos en la familia se habían suicidado.

  Historia Musgrave

  Suicide, Abuse, Dysfunctional Family

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

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  Thinking, Order, Years

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

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  Relationship, Children, Animal

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• La forma en que recuerdas el pasado depende de tu esperanza en el futuro. Y si lo que ves en tu futuro no tiene esperanza, no tiene potencial, entonces ves el pasado que te trajo hasta aquí como algo no muy bueno.

  Historia Musgrave

  Past, Views, Way

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

  Historia Musgrave

  Writing, Prose Poetry, Different

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

  Historia Musgrave

  Path, Exploration, Comfortable

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• That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

  Historia Musgrave

  Years, Three, World

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

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  Letting Go, Long, Telescopes

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• And so, I was not a military test pilot, but as soon as NASA expressed an interest in flying scientists and people who were not military test pilots, that was an epiphany that just came like a stroke of lightning.

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  Military, People, Flying

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I’m not a risk taker. But astronauts are professionals, so you get out on the field and play ball. I tried to take it in stride because that’s what I had to do to get into space. That’s where I belong, and I’m pretty good at it.

  Historia Musgrave

  Play, Space, Risk

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• There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

  Historia Musgrave

  Serious, Celebration, Feels

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Whitman expressed the whole universe in his poetry and in his catalogues. That attitude almost defines what we call American romanticism, or American transcendentalism. I feel particularly close to them, because I am now out in the universe. I’m in a position to see nature from another point of view, to be outside the earth and see the big picture.

  Historia Musgrave

  Views, Earth, Bigs

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Most of our history in space has been communicated in terms of action - what people do, a chronological list of events which have transpired - as opposed to the human experience of having done those things.

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  Space, People, Events

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Nunca leí un solo libro de niño. No leí de niño. Trabajaba en la granja. Tenía libros en clase, pero nada más. Nunca leí un solo libro fuera del aula.

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  Children, Book, Classroom

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.

  Historia Musgrave

  Communication, Going Out, Want

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way I look at it. It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.

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  Intelligent, Civilization, Looks

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've already written 300 space poems. But I look upon my ultimate form as being a poetic prose. When you read it, it appears to be prose, but within the prose you have embedded the techniques of poetry.

  Historia Musgrave

  Space, Technique, Looks

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• La forma en que recuerdas el pasado depende de tu esperanza en el futuro.

  Historia Musgrave

  Past, Way, Remember

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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