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After the Shuttle checks out on its two upcoming flights, it will be ready to take larger components up to the International Space Station later this fall.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

Developing nations want to become developed nations.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man – the function of his reasoning mind.