Jeannette Piccard Quotes
January 5, 1895 – May 17, 1981
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If we do not add something to the knowledge of cosmic rays by our trip to the stratosphere this summer, we had better not go. We had better stay on the ground, be hewers of wood and drawers of water.
Jeannette Piccard— Quoted in Oakes, Claudia M. (1985). United States Women in Aviation: 1930-1939. Smithsonian Studies in Air and Space.
When you fly a balloon you don’t file a flight plan; you go where the wind goes. You feel like part of the air. You almost feel like part of eternity, and you just float along.
Jeannette Piccard— Quoted in Sorenson, Paul (1998-1999). Looking Back.... AEM Update, University of Minnesota Institute of Technology.
There are many reasons, some of them so deep-seated emotionally as to be very difficult of expression. Possibly the simplest explanation is that we started along this road ... and I cannot stop until I have won.
Jeannette Piccard— Her reason for flying as explained to her father
— Quoted in Shayler, David J. and Moule, Ian A. (2005). Women in Space — Following Valentina. Springer-Praxis. doi:10.1007/1-84628-078-8_1. ISBN 978-1-84628-078-8.
