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• ‟ In science, we take large numbers of disparate facts and reduce them to see patterns. We use the patterns to reduce the amount of information. It's the reason we name species and genera and families in biology. It's also the reason we have names for certain types of geological features and so on in other fields.

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• ‟ I actually started my career in planetary science with a master's thesis on Pluto.

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• ‟ The big lesson of planetary science is when you do a first reconnaissance of a new kind of object, you should expect the unexpected.

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• ‟ A river is a river, independent of whether there are other rivers nearby. In science, we call things what they are based on their attributes, not what they're next to.

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• ‟ It shouldn't be so difficult to determine what a planet is. When you're watching a science fiction show like 'Star Trek' and they show up at some object in space and turn on the viewfinder, the audience and the people in the show know immediately whether it's a planet or a star or a comet or an asteroid.

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• ‟ My field is called planetary science.

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• ‟ As a researcher, I look forward to being able to do space science in a space environment.

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• ‟ Typically in science, individual scientists make up their minds about scientific fact or theory one at a time. We don't take votes. We just don't vote on quantum mechanics, the theory of relativity, why the sky is blue, or anything else.

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• ‟ Science is really about individual experts reaching a consensus.

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