"For planetary explorers like us, there is little……" — Carolyn Porco
"For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system body. This has been a heart-stopper, and surely one of our most thrilling results."
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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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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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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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