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

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" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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