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" Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to take this thing and poke it and see how it reacts. In astronomy, we can't do that. The stars, the planets, the galaxies, are so far away that we just look at them, and we have to learn things by looking at them. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

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

" 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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" 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. "

" 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.' "

" The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hubble made my career. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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