As a callow 18-year-old leaving for college, I’d seen my home town as a mere launching pad for a life in worldlier locales, a place to be from rather than a place to be. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
That’s what ‘Star Trek’ was: We don’t know how to make an ideal society, but we’re going to portray that, and then we’re going to work backward. I think that’s why science fiction – despite the dystopian parts – comes out of this super ideal that, eventually, we will get to some better place where we actually live up to our ideals. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
Every time you go to an airport and get on a plane, you are basically taking advantage of the work that was done at Langley. Between World War I and World War II, they did just tremendous amount of fundamental research into basically making airplanes safer, making them more stable. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
During World War II, hundreds of thousands of people actually – and among them many African-American – migrated to the Hampton Roads area because of the job boom that was happening. It was a place where you could get stable war jobs. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
For too long, history has imposed a binary condition on its black citizens: either nameless or renowned, menial or exceptional, passive recipients of the forces of history or superheroes who acquire mythic status not just because of their deeds but because of their scarcity. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
The success of ‘Hidden Figures’ proves that people are interested in, hungry for, stories about transcendent human experiences. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
There is so much talent among our young people; I hope the women in ‘Hidden Figures’ inspire them. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
I guess it’s inevitable that I would become somebody who would write about scientists. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote
My dad joined Langley in 1964 as a co-op student and retired in 2004 an internationally respected climate scientist. Margot Lee Shetterly Read Quote