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.

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.

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.

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

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.

We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America will be the pacemakers.

Do not allow the opinions of others to oppress you.

If one is working from the point of view of getting beauty into one's equation, ... one is on a sure line of progress.

There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.

Nothing is so uncertain or unpredictable as the feelings of a crowd.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.

If you are not being attacked by materialist, you must be doing something wrong

Something is wanting to science until it has been humanised.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.