145 Quotes by Sally Ride

On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background – the commander and the pilot.

Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.

The best advice I can give anybody is to try to understand who you are and what you want to do, and don’t be afraid to go down that road and do whatever it takes and work as hard as you have to work to achieve that.

My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren’t familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school.

I didn’t really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college.

It’s no secret that I’ve been reluctant to use my name for things.

When you’re getting ready to launch into space, you’re sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

That’s something that is almost part of being human and I’m certain that will continue.