I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis. – Sally Ride
For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences. – Sally Ride
It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission. – Sally Ride
Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. Its posing questions and coming up with a method. Its delving in. – Sally Ride
We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians. – Nicolai A. Berdyaev