Quotes by Mae Jemison - Page 2

Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Inspirational
Inspiring
Motivational
Positive
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We put water down into the earth to push up gas, then we say, 'Ooh, we're having a water crisis.' This is foolishness, and this kind of foolishness, where we try to excuse human behavior, is dangerous.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Behavior
Crisis
Dangerous
Excuse
Foolishness
Gas
Human Behavior
Water Earth Human
Ooh
Push
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I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did not know if I would get in. It was the year after the Challenger accident in 1987.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Astronaut
Engineering
Program
Accident
Applied
Brush
Challenger
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The reality is that we know that this universe, that our galaxy, has billions of stars. We know that stars have planets. So the likelihood that there is life somewhere else to me is just absolutely there.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Billions
Galaxy
Likelihood
Planets
Somewhere Else
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Once I got into space, I was feeling very comfortable in the universe. I felt like I had a right to be anywhere in this universe, that I belonged here as much as any speck of stardust, any comet, any planet.
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Science
Space
Feelings
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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Mars
Minimum
Little Girl
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There is a fascination with the idea that one has 'seen someone else do something' before one can achieve it. Maybe that's true in some cases, but clearly it is not a requirement. I knew what I wanted to do.
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Achieve
Cases
Fascination
Wanted
Seen
Idea
Clearly
Maybe
Requirement
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Sometimes parents squash students' interests because they are afraid of science or math. So they don't participate. You don't have to know the answers to engage kids; you just have to let them know it's important.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Science
Answers
Important
Math
Squash
Afraid
Engage
Parents
Interests
Participate
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I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.
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Backdrop
Different Perspective
Perspective
Science Fiction
Helps
Lets
Possibilities
Speculate
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Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.
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Display
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I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Energy
Stars
Universe
Somebody
Part
Hope Look Me
Gets
Gives
One Of The Things
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Sciences provide an understanding of a universal experience, Arts are a universal understanding of a personal experience... they are both a part of us and a manifestation of the same thing... the arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity
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Art
Creativity
Understanding
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People put themselves in difficult situations in lots of different areas. What you count on is people taking every precaution. The aerospace industry is unique in this aspect because a thousandths-of-an-inch mistake can cause spectacular failures.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Aerospace
Aspect
Industry
Mistake
Precaution
Spectacular
Unique
Lots
Area
Cause
Count
Different Areas
Failures
Situations
Taking
Themselves
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For me, it was really a childhood dream coming true. It's sort of where the fantasy led reality, and then I got to be on the Starship Enterprise anyway. And the cool thing was - is I was the only person on this bridge who had actually been in space.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Childhood
Enterprise
Fantasy
Anyway
Bridge
Childhood Dream
Cool Thing
Led
Starship
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Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won't exist because you'll have already shut it out...You can hear other people's wisdom, but you've got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
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Inspirational
Attitude
People
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin… or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
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Art
Creativity
Differences
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Everyone in the astronaut program has a degree in a science field. The crew are the ones who do the experiments, help to design some of the experiments that come from other primary researchers. So it becomes very important that you have a science background.
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Design
Astronaut
Crew
Experiments
Program
Researchers
Background
Becomes
Degree
Primary
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I've gotten this advice at different times, and it distills down to one word: purpose. Why are you here? When you start to get distracted by thoughts such as 'Do I fit in? Does this person like me?' - remember why you're there and what you want to accomplish.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Accomplish
Advice
Different Times
Distracted
Fit
One Word
Purpose
Remember
Times
Gotten
Word
Thoughts
Start
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The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Science
Continuum
Creativity
Sides
Thing
Arts
Between
Same
Coin
Difference
Different Parts
Human
Even
Parts
Rather
Same Thing
Sciences
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Sometimes people ask me how difficult the astronaut program was, but being in Sierra Leone, being responsible for the health of more than 200 people, seven days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, at age 26 - that prepared me to take on a lot of different challenges.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Age
Health
Space
Astronaut
Being Responsible
Different
Hours
Prepared
Program
Responsible
Seven
Sierra
Sierra Leone
Week
Ask
Year
Days
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Future
Creating
Ethnicity
Gender
Geography
Range
Skills
Talent
Best World Talent
Sure
Also
Best Future World
Around
Full
Problems
Solving
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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Space
Astronaut
Consulting
Exploration
Program
Space Exploration
Starting
Stronger
Technology Me People
Advocate
Ended
Stayed
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People always think of technology as something having silicon in it. But a pencil is technology. Any language is technology. Technology is a tool we use to accomplish a particular task and when one talks about appropriate technology in developing countries, appropriate may mean anything from fire to solar electricity.
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Technology
Country
Mean
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Jobs
Science
Achieve
Best Way
Careers
Engines
Fusion
Involved
Literacy
Range
Stem
Wide
Biologists
Broad
Either
Expose
Follow
Incorporate
Wide Range
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When I'm asked about the relevance to Black people of what I do, I take that as an affront. It presupposes that Black people have never been involved in exploring the heavens, but this is not so. Ancient African empires - Mali, Songhai, Egypt - had scientists, astronomers. The fact is that space and its resources belong to all of us, not to any one group.
Mae Jemison / Physician
Science
Space
Egypt
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