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David Scott
(6 Jun 1932 - )
American astronaut.
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Science Quotes by David Scott (2 quotes)
For when I look at the moon I do not see a hostile, empty world. I see … a radiant body where man has taken his first steps into an endless frontier.
— David Scott
In David Scott and Alexei Leonov, Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (2004), 390.
When I was on the Moon I performed a simple, but meaningful experiment—simultaneously dropping a falcon feather and a geology hammer to prove Galileo’s classical law about falling objects in gravity fields. I doubt if Galileo Galilei, with all his magnificent vision of the future, would ever have predicted his hypothesis would finally be proven by a man on the Moon.
— David Scott
In David Scott and Alexei Leonov, Two Sides of the Moon: Our Story of the Cold War Space Race (2004), 390.
See also:
- 6 Jun - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Scott's birth.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
