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• ‟ We need to be very thoughtful about how we propose to spend the money that NASA does have for space exploration. And we need to be clear that there's the human spaceflight part of NASA, and there's the science space part of NASA, and there's also aeronautics. Those are all very different things that NASA does.

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• ‟ People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.

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• ‟ People have this idea that if you're not brilliant like Einstein, you can't be a scientist. And that's just a myth. He was the one out of a million scientists, but there were 999,999 other scientists who were not as brilliant but who just do great science, as well.

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• ‟ We need to know math to be a good scientist, but math is a language, and we need to learn the language because that's the language of science.

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• ‟ I think religion and science operate in different regimes. Religion is a belief system that tries to give meaning and comprehension to peoples' lives. Science is more about the mechanics of the universe around us and the way in which it works. And I don't think those things have to be mutually exclusive.

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• ‟ Because exploration is not science driven, you've got to ask what is it driven by? And it's driven by politics.

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• ‟ I would say the biggest challenge I had as a woman in science is be a mom. It's really hard. It's very hard work having children, and I tell kids this all the time.

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• ‟ My message is don't be discouraged by anything anybody tells you. In my case of the science thing, and I just ignored people who said, 'Oh, girls don't do that.'

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• ‟ I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

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• ‟ Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet.

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• ‟ I went to MIT. I do rocket science. Being a mom is much harder.

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• ‟ There's this myth that science is hard. But everything is hard.

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