104 Quotes by Carolyn Porco

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.

We have never seen anything like this before. There are spiral structures in the rings, there are gravity and density waves, but they are completely different things,

We acquired this spectacular, one-of-a-kind set of images immediately after getting into orbit for the express purpose of seeing fine details in the rings that we had not seen previously.

We're looking at some kind of focusing. We can't say why it would be at the south pole.

Since we hadn't ever seen the rings in this kind of detail, we were looking for phenomena we'd never seen before.

If we had done nothing else, these findings alone would have made the Cassini mission worthwhile.

If we're right, we've just hit the ball right out of the park.

I don't think you have to be a ring scientist to appreciate this. I'm blown away.

We realize that this is a radical conclusion -- that we may have evidence for liquid water within a body so small and so cold.