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" 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. "

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

Heidi Hammel

Poet

Luck

Science

" 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. "

Heidi Hammel

Forget

Earth

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

" 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. "

Heidi Hammel

Change

Now

" Planetary missions are great, but they're usually only brief snapshots of those planets and also really very close-up. "

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

Heidi Hammel

Happy

Think

" I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" Weather forecast for Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt: cloudy with a chance of ammonia. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Heidi Hammel

Things

Need

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

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

" There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the planet. For all we know, interesting things are happening there all the time. "

" There should be a water table on Mars. "

" 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 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. "