“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

— Dan Quayle

Remarks to NASA employees, 9/5/1990, reported in Esquire (August 1992)
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American politician, lawyer 1947

James Cameron (journalist) (1911–1985) British journalist

Cameron Country, broadcast on BBC TV, July 12, 1969.

“Damn, girl. You space so hard, you ought to look into a career at NASA.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Carpe Corpus

“They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

“I think we (NASA) need to do a better job of getting the message out about what life is really like up here (from space). It's pretty spectacular.”

Garrett Reisman (1968) American astronaut

Source: Garrett Reisman (2021) cited in " Bringing Space Down to Earth With Toilets and Toys https://www.space.com/5513-bringing-space-earth-toilets-toys.html" on Space.com, 14 June 2008.

“Diversity is one of the high priorities that I expected everybody in the leadership position at the university to be committed to.”

Robert J. Birgeneau (1942) Canadian physicist

as quoted in Searching for science policy, by Jonathan B. Imber, published by Transaction Publishers (2002), ISBN 0-765-80163-9, p. 27.

“High priority will be given to the provisions of minimum needs on rural areas and to integrated rural development… the planning process will be revitalized.”

Basappa Danappa Jatti (1912–2002) Indian politician

Presidential Addresses to Parliament

“Scripture champions contentment and self-control, not the endless pursuit of personal desires. Teaching and modeling these increasingly un-American values is not a high priority in most churches.”

Skye Jethani

The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)

“To the youths, utilise all the spaces and chances available with tact, as the saying goes, become a garuda if high up in space, become an island if fall down to the sea.”

Abdul Halim of Kedah (1927–2017) King of Malaysia

Royal address at the opening of the fifth session of the 12th Parliament http://www.parlimen.gov.my/files/hindex/pdf/DR-12032012.pdf, 13/12/2011

“They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it.”

Fritz Leiber book The Wanderer

Source: The Wanderer (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 37).
Context: They’ve heard about space but they still don’t believe in it. They haven’t been out here to see for themselves that there isn’t any giant elephant under the earth, holding it up, and a giant tortoise holding up the elephant. If I say “planet” and “spaceship” to them, they still think “horoscope” and “flying saucer”.

“…the differential element of non-Euclidean spaces is Euclidean. This fact, however, is analogous to the relations between a straight line and a curve, and cannot lead to an epistemological priority of Euclidean geometry, in contrast to the views of certain authors.”

Hans Reichenbach (1891–1953) American philosopher

The Philosophy of Space and Time (1928, tr. 1957)

“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”

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