72 Quotes by Heidi Hammel

C is a passing grade. You don't need straight A's to be a scientist, despite what you may have heard.

One of the things I've learned that has made me very successful, I think, as a scientist in general, sometimes you just have to take a chance.

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.

Being insignificant statistically doesn't mean it's right or wrong. It just means you don't have enough data to show yes or no.

Climates always change. The question is, how are we going to adapt to climate change? Now, it may be true that we are accelerating it inadvertently by messing with our atmosphere, but regardless of that, the climate will change.

I think we need to be very careful if we want to do things like further modify our atmosphere. And similarly, I think we need to be very worried about unintentional modification, which is basically what's been going on.

It's very clear that global climate change is occurring on earth, but it's also been very clear that that has always happened on earth. We've always had a changing climate on earth. We all know about ice ages. We know when our continent was covered with ice sheets. We know glaciers come and they go. It puzzles me that people forget that.

It's clear that the only thing that is inhibiting us from doing further human exploration of space is money and the will to do it.

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