"Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity……" — Carolyn Porco
"Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,"
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14 Quotes by Carolyn Porco
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Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much…
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While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the…
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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,
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For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system…
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We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until…
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Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior,…
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We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse…
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We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for…
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All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live…
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Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
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The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you…
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Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and…
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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