Carolyn Porco Quotes

#1. Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

Carolyn Porco

#2. He would like best of all to persecute us with fire and sword, but this method has availed him little because through the blood of martyrs the church has been watered.

Martin Luther

#3. I dare not drink before a gig because I'll get tired and blow it. So I have to sit drinking tea in a caravan.

John Bonham

#4. There are absolutely no high-maintenance items in my house of any kind. Plants, pets or husbands.

Carolyn Porco

#5. When we learn to love unconditionally we will find endless happiness and infinite peace.

Debasish Mridha

#6. Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, how they evolve, when they appear and disappear.

Carolyn Porco

#7. Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

Carolyn Porco

#8. I don't regret anything.

Amy Winehouse

#9. My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

Sonya Hartnett

#10. We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remaining in the Solar System today,

Carolyn Porco

#11. 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.

Carolyn Porco

#12. The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

Carolyn Porco

#13. The quest for the truth, in and of itself,
Is a story that's filled with insights.

Carolyn Porco

#14. Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,

Carolyn Porco

#15. Cassini is different
it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Carolyn Porco

#16. Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

Fred Rogers

#17. Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets,

Carolyn Porco

#18. When the Attorney-General ceased, a buzz arose in the court as if a cloud of great blue-flies were swarming about the prisoner, in anticipation of what he was soon to become.

Charles Dickens

#19. Now it was just a matter of where and when he would ask Tate Morrison to marry him.

Ella Frank

#20. Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.

Beth Moore

#21. All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

Carolyn Porco

#22. While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn, ... With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.

Carolyn Porco

#23. It's been an adventure just getting out to Saturn, .. Saturn is such an alluring photographic target. It's a joy, really, to be able to take our images and composite them in an artful way, which is one of my cardinal working goals. It's about poetry and beauty and science all mixed together.

Carolyn Porco

#24. There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.

Carolyn Porco

#25. We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007, ... But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.

Carolyn Porco

#26. I enjoy the song writing process more than anything. It's what I like the most, just sitting in my room with guitar or at the piano or something. Just making something up, something that's not there, that suddenly is there.

Bernard Fanning

#27. We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent.

Carolyn Porco