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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder. "

" 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. "

" My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.' "

" 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

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

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

" Hubble is absolutely unique; we must have a telescope in space to complement the very large telescopes on the ground. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "