Mae Jemison Quotes

We are not particularly interested in the prestige of space, but in the scientific aspects of it.

Science does not just drive space travel - space travel also drives science.

It's so astounding the amount of sacrifice the astronauts have to go through to do what they do and all the science involved in space exploration.

I was terrible at maths, but I could grasp science, and I used to love to read about the lives of the scientists. I wanted to be a scientist or an inventor.

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

Go to the moon - that's my dream.

My father has a great love of science, and he indoctrinated me into it early. I think I was 12 or so when we designed a moon base.

The thing I like most about flying in space is not the view. The thing I like about it is doing something I feel very, very strongly about.

This is a really big space station. We do a lot of various kinds of work here, different kinds of science experiments; we have over 400 different experiments going on at any one time in different areas, from basic science research to medical technology, that hopefully will benefit more people on Earth.

Spoiler alert: I did not become an astronaut.

The most exciting thing in the twentieth century is science.

After being once in space, I was keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

The question I always get is, Why didn't you throw Dr. Smith off the Jupiter? I get that all the time.

I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've been training in a centrifuge and MiG Fighter with a view to going into space and being a spokesman for space exploration!

I loved dinosaurs, I loved space, and I thought maybe I'd be the first paleo-astronaut.

The space shuttle was designed, at least in part, to broaden our knowledge of the universe. To scientists, the vehicle was a tool; to engineers, it was their creation.

The views of the Earth are really beautiful. If you've ever seen a space IMAX movie, that's really what it looks like. I wish I'd had more time just to sit and look out the window with a map, but our science program kept us very busy in the lab most of the time.

I've put a lot of my life into making it possible to fly in space at all.

Space is going to be commonplace.

Back in 2007, I had the opportunity to meet Professor Stephen Hawking through the X PRIZE Foundation. In my first conversation with him I learned that he was passionate about flying into space someday.

I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

There's a lot of things I nerd out over. Quantum Mechanics. I also love Dungeons and Dragons. I want to be an astronaut.

The space shuttle has been a fantastic vehicle. It is unlike any other thing that we've ever built. Its capabilities have carried several hundred people into space.

I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

I've been lucky enough to fly to space twice.