Famous Quotes

"The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

Sally Ride on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Sally Ride

• "The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience."

• "The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program."

• "I did not come to NASA to make history."

• "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."

• "For whatever reason, I didn't succumb to the stereotype that science wasn't for girls. I got encouragement from my parents. I never ran into a teacher or a counselor who told me that science was for boys. A lot of my friends did."