Mae Jemison

1956– · American doctor and NASA astronaut

Topics: creativity, learning

• We need to revitalize the arts and sciences today. We need to take responsibility for the future. We can't hide behind saying it's just for company profits, or it's just a business, or I'm an artist or an academician.

  — Mae Jemison

• The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It's our attempt as humans to build an understanding of the universe, the world around us. It's our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.

  — Mae Jemison

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

  — Mae Jemison