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"The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

Christa McAuliffe 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 Christa McAuliffe

  • "I touch the future. I teach."

  • "If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done."

  • "NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space."

  • "The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans."

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