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Jeannette Piccard Quotes

1895–1981 United States

Jeannette Ridlon Piccard (5 January 1895 – 17 May 1981) was an American aeronaut, who pioneered balloon flight, a teacher, scientist and priest.

United States
Aviators
Chemists
Clergy
Educators

Also known as: Piccard, Jeannette

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Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies.

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.

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Jeannette Piccard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.