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John L. Phillips Quotes

Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.

John L. Phillips

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: astronaut
Nationality: american
Birth: April 15, 1951

Topics

Moon Small Measure Create Gravity

I struggled for so long to try to create a career.

Jessica Chastain

Long Career Create Try Struggled

I'm thrilled with how my career is evolving.

Jennifer Aniston

Career Evolving How Thrilled

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Stephen King

Time You One Word Write Answer Word

I really feel that I'm a much better director than I was an actor.

Steve Antin

Better Feel Actor Director Than

When I eat with my friends, it is a moment of real pleasure, when I really enjoy my life.

Monica Bellucci

Life Food Moment My Life Enjoy Eat

I was determined to play my horn against all odds, and I had to sacrifice a whole lot of pleasure to do so.

Louis Armstrong

Sacrifice Play Odds Determined Whole

In between films I like to travel and hope to visit every continent before I become a mother.

Diane Kruger

Mother Hope Travel Become Like

See that the President, the Cabinet and staff are informed. If cut out of the information flow, their decisions may be poor, not made, or not confidently or persuasively implemented.

Donald Rumsfeld

Decisions Information Flow Poor See

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

William Shakespeare

Slow Fast Run Stumble Wisely

If gravity were somewhat stronger or weaker, stars wouldn't exist, and neither would you. And the same can be said of other constants of physics. Several have to be 'just right.'

Seth Shostak

Stars Stronger You Physics Said

Someone once said that to make a regular person laugh, you need to dress a guy up like an old lady and push him down the stairs. To make a comedy writer laugh, you have to push a real old lady down the stairs. I don't know who that's attributed to. I think it's Aristophanes. Or Catherine the Great.

Tina Fey

Great Dress Think Laugh Push Comedy

Everything that the West is today is predominantly because of Africa.

Nneka

Today Africa Everything West Because