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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Hubble orbits high, outside Earth's atmosphere so it can see a wide spectrum of light our atmosphere blocks. "

" If there were creatures on Uranus - and I don't think there are - seasonal affective disorder would be a lifetime thing. "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't use Hubble to stare at Jupiter unless there's a special event or some special reason. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Neptune's unusual behavior is showing us that though we can make great models of planetary atmospheric circulation, there may be key pieces missing. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be a good scientist. "

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

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