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" Amid apocalyptic dystopia, 'Fahrenheit 451''s protagonist retains sparks of curiosity, creativity, and courage, and these human characteristics are the seeds of hope that can arise, phoenix-like, from civilization's ashes. "
Hope
Creativity
Courage
" As you go further from the sun, Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are each colder in their upper atmosphere. But when you get to Neptune, it's just as warm as Uranus. "
You
Atmosphere
Go
" Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. "
Got
Exploration
Politics
" Because Hubble's been up so many years now, it's actually given us a window to things like... how planets' atmospheres actually change, evolve... over time. "
Like
Change
Now
" Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no. "
You
Right
Mean
" By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. "
Presence
May
Activity
" C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. "
Straight
Passing
Need
" Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating it inadvertently by messing with our atmosphere, but regardless of that, the climate will change. "
Adapt
True
Change
" Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!' "
Years
Me
New
" Every field of astrophysics - whether it's our local neighborhood of planets, nearby stars and their attendant planets, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, out to the edge of the universe - every field has questions that are awaiting the power of Hubble. "
Stars
Questions
Power
" Every observation that we make, every mission that we send to various places in the solar system is just taking us one step further to finding that truly habitable environment, a water-rich environment. "
Mission
Environment
Finding
" Having high quality daycare is by far the most important thing you can do when your kids are little. When I relocated, I spent more time looking for daycare than I did looking for a house. "
Time
Quality
You
" Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally. "
Way
Great
People
" Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground. "
Unique
Absolutely
Ground
" Hubble made my career. "
Hubble
Career
Made
" Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. "
Light
See
Outside
" Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects. "
Software
Solar
System
" I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things. "
Roads
Education
Good
" I feel like an old-fashioned mountain climber when I am making discoveries, seeing something for the first time, realizing that no human before me has ever seen what I am seeing. It takes your breath away - for just a moment, you feel a pause in time, as you know you are crossing a boundary into a new realm of knowledge. "
Moment
Knowledge
Time
" If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand. "
Understand
Data
You
" If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing. "
Lifetime
Creatures
Think
" I have a little piece of Hubble that someone brought back from one of the repair missions. It's on my desk, where I work. I do feel a personal connection to it. It's been part of my life for 20 years. "
Feel
Connection
Life
" I'm happy here on the surface of the earth. If space travel ever got to be as simple as jet travel today, yeah, I'd take a jet flight to the moon. "
Simple
Today
Travel
" I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations. "
Like
Happy
Think
" I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive. "
Think
Science
Religion
" I think the only way that the U.S. human spaceflight program is going to get really revitalized, really put sort of an Apollo level push on it, is if some other country, perhaps China, were to actually have a landed flight to the moon and brought back our American flag and put it in Tiananmen Square. "
Moon
American Flag
Think
" I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I think we need to be very worried about unintentional modification, which is basically what's been going on. "
Things
Need
Like
" It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it. "
Space
Doing
Exploration
" It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that. "
Forget
Earth
Me
" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "
Rocket
Being
MIT
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