We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the … - Carolyn Porco

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I think it's a sensible thing not to read your fan mail - not to take it too seriously.

Carolyn Porco

We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until about 2007,. . . But this finding seems to be telling us that conditions on the dark side of the rings are almost as good right now for seeing spokes.

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All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever as mass or energy. That's what we should be teaching our children, not fairy tales about angels and seeing grandma in Heaven.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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