Squyres With A Y Quotes

#1. I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

Steven Squyres

#2. Writing a book is just reading one, except you get to choose the perfect ending everytime!

Jennifer Squyres

#3. There's no way to actually turn the rover off.

Steve Squyres

#4. We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Steven Squyres

#5. The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for.

Steven Squyres

#6. This is no longer a battle of devices, it is a war of ecosystems.

Stephen Elop

#7. Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that question. One of the biggest mistakes you can make if you're a scientist is to think you know the answer, or wish for a certain answer, before you actually have it.

Steve Squyres

#8. We have concluded that the rocks here were once soaked in liquid water. It changed their texture, and it changed their chemistry. We've been able to read the tell-tale clues the water left behind, giving us confidence in that conclusion.

Steve Squyres

#9. Mars is telling us something. I'm not sure what it is because It's speaking martian. But it's telling us something

Steve Squyres

#10. These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day.

Steven Squyres

#11. We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

Steven Squyres

#12. Aw, kiss him, Gwen, clamored a hundred perky eggs. Shut up, she rebuked. We don't even know him, and until moments ago we thought he was dead. That's no way to start a relationship.

Karen Marie Moning

#13. Monotheism owes its existence not to philosophic speculation about the nature of reality or knowledge or virtue, but to acceptance of reality identified with a supreme being.

Israel Shenker

#14. The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

Steven Squyres

#15. You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

Steven Squyres

#16. Life is short. Ricky and I realize how lucky we were. We want to be together all the time.

Christie Brinkley

#17. Whatever you do, don't do anything that might make Brimstone mad.

Bree Despain

#18. That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

Steven Squyres

#19. Life and human society are the chief concern of Confucianism and, through it, the chief concern of the Chinese people.

Hu Shih

#20. It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

Steven Squyres

#21. We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

Steven Squyres

#22. Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Steven Squyres

#23. When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

Steven Squyres

#24. Find purpose. The means will follow.

Mahatma Gandhi

#25. My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

Steve Squyres

#26. I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like.

Steven Squyres

#27. This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

Steven Squyres

#28. I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Patty Loveless