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Usually, girls werent encouraged to go to college and major in mat

Usually, girls werent encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college. – Ellen Ochoa

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A hallmark of the Latino community is to help one another, if students are interested in a way to give back and help their communities, becoming a teacher is probably one of the very best ways of doing that. – Ellen Ochoa

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teacher
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I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out. – Ellen Ochoa

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Education
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We are involved in technology development for, you know, missions that we hope to plan that would take us to an asteroid and eventually to Mars. – Ellen Ochoa

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All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. – James C. Maxwell

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Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one. – Walter Jon Williams

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Im a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kays geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap. – Robert Ballard

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Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance. – Ernst Mach

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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. – Peter Drucker

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We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared. – Edward Dahlberg

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Luck? I dont know anything about luck. Ive never banked on it and Im afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work – and realizing what is opportunity and what isnt. – Lucille Ball

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Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty. – John Carmack

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