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I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

Theodore Von Karman / Aerospace Engineer
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I am quite pessimistic about ever achieving interstellar travel.

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A scientist describes what is. An engineer creates what never was.

Theodore Von Karman Aerospace Engineer

Scientists study the world as it is, engineers create the world that never has been.

Theodore Von Karman Aerospace Engineer

Some fear flutter because they do not understand it. And some fear it because they do.

Theodore Von Karman Aerospace Engineer

Everyone knows it takes a woman nine months to have a baby. But you Americans think if you get nine women pregnant, you can have a baby in a month.

Theodore Von Karman Aerospace Engineer

In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.

Alan Lightman Physicist

I think the future of psychotherapy and psychology is in the school system. We need to teach every child how to rarely seriously disturb himself or herself and how to overcome disturbance when it occurs.

Albert Ellis Psychologist

I've often been asked what drives me, particularly through the last 50 years of abuse, and ridicule. What has kept me going is one word - care. I care enough about the land, the wildlife, people, the future of humanity. If you care enough, you will do whatever you have to do, no matter what the opposition.

Allan Savory

I'm excited about what the future will bring and I think the best is yet to come.

Alonzo Mourning Basketball Player

CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

Ambrose Bierce Journalist

For it is the duty of an astronomer to compose the history of the celestial motions or hypotheses about them. Since he cannot in any certain way attain to the true causes, he will adopt whatever suppositions enable the motions to be computed correctly from the principles of geometry for the future as well as for the past.

Andreas Osiander

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