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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Ah, what broken creatures we are, and how we endure.

Jules stood up and stretched gracelessly. “Let’s hurry up and pay before she”-she indicated Claire with a flick of her thumb-“sees something shiny and we lose her again.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.

Take responsibility and go to work so God has something to help us with.

Paul Newman would have been a much more important star if he hadn't always tried to be an anti-hero, to show the human feet of clay.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

The course of a lifetime runs/over and over again

What would rock and roll be without ambition, craziness, danger, and fun?

It is a great disgrace to religion, to imagine that it is an enemy to mirth and cheerfulness, and a severe exacter of pensive looks and solemn faces.