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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe. "

" When you look at Venus and the Earth, they formed at about the same place in the solar system. They're made of about the same materials; they're about the same size. "

" 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. "

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

" 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?' "

" If you think of the Apollo capsule coming into Earth with a parachute, the Mars atmosphere is just so thin, you've got to find some way of slowing yourself down really rapidly. "

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

" Mars was this water-based planet, and we know there was stable water on the surface for a long time, which is critical for life having a chance to develop. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" Mars missions will require up to three years in reduced gravity, so we need to make sure astronauts can not only survive but thrive as they move outward to explore this new world. "

" I wish someone would redo 'Dune.' "

" As chief scientist, it's sort of my job to look at bridges between what we do and to see the connections. But when we try to understand how are planets around other stars habitable... to looking back at the Earth - how are the changes that are taking place, how are they going to affect humanity? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day. "

" 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" It's part of the human character to want to know what's over the next hill, to want to know what's beyond. "

" 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. "