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Having the opportunity to fly the first flight of something like a space shuttle was the ultimate test flight.

"STS-1 25th Anniversary Interview with Bob Crippen". "NASA Direct" with George Diller, www.nasa.gov. April 12, 2006.

The test of any man lies in action.

Pindar (1959). “The odes of Pindar”

The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.

Nevil Shute (1954). “Slide rule: the autobiography of an engineer”

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.

Mary Wollstonecraft (2008). “A Vindication of the Rights of Women & a Vindication of the Rights of Men”, p.17, Cosimo, Inc.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.48, Routledge