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" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We've explored every type of environment in the solar system at least once. "

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance. "

" 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.' "

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

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

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

" Webb will return extremely interesting measurements of chemistry in the Martian atmosphere. And most importantly, these Mars data will be immediately available to the planetary community to enable them to plan even more detailed Mars observations with Webb in future cycles. "

" 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. "