Jeannette Piccard

Quotes

• “Sonny, I'm old enough to have changed your nappies.”
• “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.”
• “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.”
• “There are many reasons, some of them so deep-seated emotionally as to be very difficult of expression. Possibly the simplest explanation is that we started along this road … and I cannot stop until I have won.”

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Key dates

Born

5 January 1895

Died

17 May 1981

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Jeannette

Gender

female

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Chicago

Place of death

Minneapolis

Spouse

Jean Piccard

Occupation

Anglican priest

Educated at

Bryn Mawr College

Languages spoken

English language

Religion

Anglicanism

Image

Jeannette Piccard 1934.jpg

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