I think all scientists are like detectives. We are most happy when we find something that doesn't fit our expectations. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that. — 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
You make sure you broaden yourself and have a good solid background in many different things. That's what you need to be… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just… — 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… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Scientists normally like to do experiments. You know, they like to mix this with that and see what happens. They like to… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
The whole Hubble program has just been a fabulous testament to the NASA science community and the NASA astronaut community. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And… — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
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… — 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
