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I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Space
Dealt
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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Past
Remember
Way
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Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Comfortable
Exploration
Path
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There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Celebration
Feels
Serious
Pause
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Hubble
Letting Go
Long
Long Term
Telescopes
Celebrated
Investor
Let Go
Telescope
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I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Abuse
Dysfunctional Family
Suicide
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Relationship
Animal
Children
Great Relationship
Relationship Great World
Animals
Hugely
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Different
Prose Poetry
Writing
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Catching
Particular
Prose
Medium
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Mess
Messed Up
Three
World
Years
World I Am Me
Messed
Year-Old
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Order
Solace
Thinking
Years
Drives
Year-Old
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Big Picture
Point Of View
Picture
Particularly
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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Book
Children
Classroom
Single
Books
Farm
Outside
Worked
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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.
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Visual
Translation
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Space
Embedded
Looks
Prose
Technique
Ultimate
Appears
Poems
Techniques
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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Future
Depends
No Hope
Past
Remember
Views
Way
Future Hope Good
Brought
View
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Space
Events
Human Experience
People
Chronological
List
Opposed
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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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Civilization
Intelligent
Looks
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Epiphany
Flying
Lightning
Military
Nasa
People
Expressed
Pilot
Scientists
Soon
Stroke
Test
Test Pilot
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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. that It has not been accepted, because we've been in an anthropocentric era.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Accepted
Certainty
Intelligent
Statistics
Life Look Way
Advanced
Beings
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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.
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Science
Giving
People
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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.
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Communication
Creation
Direct
Face To Face
Going Out
Preacher
Pulpit
Spirituality
Want
Emerson
Ended
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Believe
Civilization
Form
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I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.
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I Am Me People
Tragedies
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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.
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Space
Play
Risk
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Getting Started
Lessons
Life Lesson
Responsibility
Thinking
Life Responsibility People
Life People Young
Young People
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If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Communication
Space
Communicate
Different Cultures
Living Creatures
Numbers
Planets
Priorities
Cultures
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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
Differences
Thinking
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Bigs
Earth
Views
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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.
Story Musgrave / Physician
Future
Science
Thinking About You
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