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

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" I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. "

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

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

" Hubble wasn't designed to look at objects in our solar system, but after it was launched, astronomers realized that with just a little bit of modification to the software, it could look at solar system objects. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" We really have only been observing Neptune with big telescopes since shortly before 1989. "

" 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. "

" There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "