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. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Even after years of observing, a new picture of Uranus from Keck Observatory can stop me in my tracks and make me say, 'Wow!' — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
There are amateurs who have seen that one of Uranus' poles is brighter than the other, or who have seen cloud formations on the… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Whatever I was going into, whether it was going to be chorus or history or astronomy or whatever, do it right. Be a professional.… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
By monitoring auroral activity on exoplanets, we may be able to infer the presence of water on or within an exoplanet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
