Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome – and even comforting – than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
I did play the guitar and sing; I was in a band called The Estrogens: three females and one very brave guy. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
People gravitate to religion to feel a connection to the underlying meaning of everything. Well, as a scientist, you’re always looking for the underlying meaning, and that, to me, is such a spiritual life, I wish people would open themselves up to that wonder. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
Between my participation in Voyager and my role in Cassini, when comes the time, I will die a happy and gratified woman. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
Voyager’s passage through Saturn’s inner system exposed diverse moons with dynamic forces at work. Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, whose surface remained invisible through its thick, ubiquitous haze, nonetheless teased observers with hints of a possible ocean of liquid hydrocarbons. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
Titan is Saturn’s largest moon, and, until Cassini had arrived, there was the largest single expanse of unexplored terrain that we had remaining in our solar system. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
Boy, when you come to study something, and you come to understand it – you know, even if it’s just a little discovery that you make, and you come to understand it on your own, it feels it’s like the greatest high. It’s like you just have found some incredibly secretive thing about nature. Carolyn Porco Read Quote
