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" 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. "

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" My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy. "

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" The Internet has made communication far more rapid. If there is a discovery, instantly around the world, anyone can confirm it. "

Heidi Hammel

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" 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. "

" Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. "

" What I want to look at with Webb is what we call ice giants in our solar system - the planets Neptune and Uranus. "

" 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. "

Heidi Hammel

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" When I was in college, I didn't like physics a lot, and I really wasn't very good at physics. And there were a lot of people around me who were really good at physics: I mean, scary good at physics. And they weren't much help to me, because I would say, 'How do you do this?' They'd say, 'Well, the answer's obvious.' "

" 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. "

" Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. "

" The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community. "

" Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia. "

" Most people have already seen a cosmic collision. If you've seen a shooting star ever, you've seen a cosmic collision, because a shooting star is not a star. It's a tiny dust or pea sized fragment of an asteroid or a comet hitting our atmosphere and burning up as it hits in, as it comes in. "

" People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is. "

" You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. "

" Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional. Don't just do a half baked job. Do everything correctly. Get down. Learn the details of what you're going to do. "

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

" By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. "

" Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. "

" We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not. "

" When Hubble was launched, it became clear very shortly thereafter that there was a problem with the optics.The mirror was not quite the right shape. And the one program that I had really been looking forward to doing with Hubble was studying outer planets in our solar system, the planets Uranus and Neptune. "

" Having the young people engaged, involved, and being the leaders themselves is a great way to capture them intellectually and emotionally. "

" Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!' "

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" We need people pushing the boundaries. Exploration is what we, as humans, do. "

" My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.' "

" The Hubble Telescope can see the farthest galaxies. The Webb Telescope will see the farthest stars. "

" I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Heidi Hammel

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" People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well. "