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

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" The thing about telescopes is that the mirror is the main component. Once that's built, you don't need to build new ones; you just need to swap out the instruments. There's nothing wrong with Hubble's mirror. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hubble made my career. "

" I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time. "

" We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989. "

" Together, NASA and Hubble are opening new vistas on the universe. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard. "

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

" The Hubble images far surpassed anything taken by any telescope on Earth. "

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

" When I first heard that a comet was going to hit Jupiter, my reaction was, 'Eh. So what? Jupiter's huge. Comets are small. And so when I saw the first impact site and it was huge and dark, I was flabbergasted. "

" 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. "

" We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations. "

" 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. "

Looking Forward

" What we're learning is that the sun and its warmth isn't the only way to get warmth in the solar system, and we've been thinking that for some time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We live inside the atmosphere of an active star. "

" 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. "

" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "