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" 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality. "

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" We want to make sure we get living astronauts to the surface of Mars. "

" One of the big things about space exploration is that it is as expensive as it is complicated, and you need all the countries of the world to help if you want to accomplish big goals. "

" We're going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. "

" We actually look to the scientific community to kind of come back to NASA and tell us what the priorities should be. And then at NASA, we try to look within our budget and say, 'What can we accommodate, and what are the most important things for the nation?' "

" Water-based life is very much an Earth-centric view, and we can push the envelope on that here in our own solar system. We have the methane seas of Titan. "

" Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on. "

" As a card-carrying space nerd and NASA's chief scientist, I love space movies, from 'Star Trek' to 'Star Wars' to my all-time favorite - 'The Dish', an Australian comedy that celebrates that first moment when Neil Armstrong stepped down onto the surface of our moon. "

" As we visit Mars multiple times, we will build up infrastructure on the surface to expand the capabilities and reach of humans on Mars. "

" I'm actually a NASA brat. My father was a rocket scientist. He started working at NASA before it was NASA in 1959. "

" There's a huge question of whether you really need water for life. "

" To unambiguously settle the questions of whether there was life on Mars, it will take scientists down on the surface. "

" I live an hour from NASA's HQ in Washington, D.C., and sitting in a jam stresses me out. "

" You see countries like India really investing in their space program because they see it as inspirational and good for their economy. "

" We're not going to get humans to Mars until at least the mid-2030s, and the world is going to change by then. "

" People see space as a place where you go and cooperate. "

" What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time. "

" Everybody has busy lives, but you can tell people, 'Go outside and look at the night sky. We've been able to demonstrate that every star you see probably has a planet around it.' "

" With the mission to Mars, the whole world wants to get involved. So we actually have 13 different space agencies from around the world working on the global exploration road map. "

" My key aim is to get man on the surface of Mars by the mid-2030s. "

" If I had an unlimited budget, I would really be probing that question of life because we know what the questions are, and we know what the destinations are. "

" I wish someone would redo 'Dune.' "

" We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of doable, affordable steps? How can we break that problem down into chunks in order to keep making progress?' "

" Instead of being able to look at smaller interesting research projects, I am trying to see the links between all the research NASA does. For me, that's extremely fun because I get to go play and learn about areas of science that I know nothing about. "

" The public has an incredible capacity for appreciating the wonder of our planet, our solar system, our universe. "

" I'm so biased to this issue of the origins of life and the limits of life. "

" We like to talk about pioneering Mars rather than just exploring Mars, because once we get to Mars, we will set up some sort of permanent presence. "

" A lot of my role is advocacy, and as a scientist, you're an advocate, too, because you are coming up with a theory and having to convince your fellow scientists that you're right. "

" Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers. "

" Being able to have a laboratory on Mars, being able to have some sort of sustained human presence on Mars in the future, I think, is critically important for science. "

" Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to. "