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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available to the planetary community to enable them to plan even more detailed Mars observations with Webb in future cycles. "

" There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the planet. For all we know, interesting things are happening there all the time. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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