John Glenn Quotes

In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

On education, in order to ensure that America remains a world leader, we must create an educated, skilled workforce in the vital areas of science, math, engineering and information technology. At the same time, we must give every student access to a college degree.

Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.

Space and exploration are also related to inspiration.

Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating.

If my vision was good enough, I'd be an astronaut.

Space is going to be commonplace.

I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

Perhaps one day I will go into space.

We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.

So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

I actually want to go up into space.

When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.

Rockets are cool. There's no getting around that.

People are fascinated by space flight. It makes them interested in science, gets them asking questions and motivates them.

One of the reasons I like working with schools is to try to convince women that they can be scientists and that science can be fun.

In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

We will acquire knowledge and science wherever they are to be found and we will stuff them into the head of every individual in the country. No limits, no conditions can be attached to knowledge and science.

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

Our single greatest defense against scientific ignorance is education, and early in the life of every scientist, the child's first interest was sparked by a teacher.

Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing.