I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.

More Quotes by Mae Jemison

In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.

Timidity does not inspire bold acts.

I like to think of ideas as potential energy. They're really wonderful, but nothing will happen until we risk putting them into action.

I'm not somebody who gets teared up or anything, but I still look up at the stars, and it gives me hope, and it gives me energy. I think one of the things that we have to think about it is, we are all a part of this universe.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.