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

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was.

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.

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.

You only win when you let others win.

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

[Gonturan] is a true friend, but a friend with thoughts of her own, and the thoughts of others are dangerous.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

Why make disciples? Because heaven and hell exist, and the end of the world is coming.

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War.

Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have influenced me.

Her idea of who's worth what ain't mine.

That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.

The difference between a healthy group or organization and an unhealthy one lies in its members' awareness and ability to acknowledge their felt needs to conform.