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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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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" No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond. "

" 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. "

" Hubble made my career. "

" Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction. "

" Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no. "

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

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

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

" 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. "