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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Everyone should read, we say, but we act as if only those with special talent should write.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

Class envy is dangerous.

We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

Filing is concerned with the past; anything you actually need to see again has to do with the future.

The day that witnesses the conversion of our ministers into political and philosophical speculators or scientific lecturers, will witness the final decay of clerical weight and influence.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.

When you control seed, you control food.