Katherine Johnson Quotes

Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

Katherine Johnson

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• We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Future
  • Community
  • Space

• I do a lot of running and hiking, and I also collect stamps - space stamps and Olympics stamps.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Running
  • Space
  • Hiking

• Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Culture
  • Lost
  • Space

• I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Space
  • Down
  • Entrepreneur

• The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Change

• Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Space
  • Physics

• What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Small
  • Space

• Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much is expected to be manipulated - curated, contrived, edited. I think that's a real detriment to self expression and happiness in a lot of ways. In my mind, honesty and vulnerability is the way forward.

  

  K. Flay
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Real

• I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Remember
  • Space
  • Moment

• People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is purely about knowledge. Knowledge can become practical today, in 20 years, or in 500 years. Ask Newton. He didn't know there would be space research based on his accident with the apple.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • People
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• Cyberpunk was really a reaction against old boy sci-fi which was about white guys in space who would come up with some kind of technological thing.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Up
  • Space
  • Kind

• I've always fantasized about being on TV. And I was. Then I fantasized about being in the movies. What could be better than captain of a space ship? I get to ride horses, shoot guns, have adventures.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Space
  • Ship
  • Captain

• I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Clothes
  • Dress

• I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Space
  • Beauty

• We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Small
  • Space
  • Warm

• I'm always looking for complicated characters in fiction about whom I can feel a dozen feelings at once - in the space of a single paragraph, even.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Single
  • Space
  • Feelings

• The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Today
  • Space
  • Smart

• I've hidden behind the camera my whole life because I much, much, much prefer shooting. Being behind the camera is my safe space, and it's my creative space, too.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Life
  • Space

• Throughout history, when societies have been faced with big challenges, they've put their best people on them. During the Space Race, American and Russian scientists, engineers, astronauts and cosmonauts pushed the bounds of what was possible and landed men on the moon.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • People
  • Men
  • American

• I think sometimes comedians and entertainers and artists, sometimes they get onstage, and it's all for what they want to do. I think you still need to do stuff for the audience. They're the ones who are making it possible.

  

  Frank Caliendo

• Everything was so new - the whole idea of going into space was new and daring. There were no textbooks, so we had to write them.

  

  Katherine Johnson
  • Space