"I don’t recall any interest in science in particular. It came later in college." ― Ellen Ochoa Topic(s): Science More From Ellen Ochoa "I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it’s not just for a select group of people." "Usually, girls weren’t encouraged to go to college and major in math and science. My high school calculus teacher, Ms. Paz Jensen, made math appealing and motivated me to continue studying it in college." "I tell students that the opportunities I had were a result of having a good educational background. Education is what allows you to stand out." More In Science "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."― Oliver Wendell Holmes "In science, “fact” can only mean “confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms."― Stephen Jay Gould "If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"― Carl Sagan