Porco Quotes

#1. There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been.

Rumi

#2. 'Fail hard, fail fast, fail often. It's the key to success.' This one I learned from experience!

Reshma Saujani

#3. You have no idea what it is like to watch two blind people fighting. Fighting has always been, more or less, a form of blindness.

Jose Saramago

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

Carolyn Porco

#5. 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

#6. He had learned something from a book which others believed must be learned from doing or practice.

Anne Rice

#7. You don't have to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to know what you want to be. That comes later. But I want you to want more than just having a job and muddling through life. I want you to find a passion you believe in strongly enough to risk humiliation and rejection.

Kate Klise

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

Carolyn Porco

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Carolyn Porco

#13. 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

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

Carolyn Porco

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

Carolyn Porco

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

Carolyn Porco

#17. To leave Italy at 17 without money and go to a country like England is very rare; Italians stay with the family until 30, 35. But I couldn't stand to live in this box anymore. I was getting bigger, and the box was getting smaller.

Riccardo Tisci

#18. 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

#19. I love her more than anything in this whole fucking world, including you!

Cassandra Giovanni

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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