24 Quotes by Steven Squyres

It's a cold, dry miserable place today. But we have got these tantalizing clues that, in the past, it used to be warmer and wetter.

It sounds like a crazy way to land on Mars, but it's actually tried and tested.

It's not going to fill in the potholes. It's not going to put a roof over people's heads. What it does is it helps to address really fundamental questions of who we are, where we came from, by which I mean we can learn how life came about.

The Beagle 2 is excellent, ambitious. Ours are excellent, but we have different instrument packages and different aims. I don't see the material for the controversy.

It'll be spectacular if we can get there.

It has everything a human field biologist has and then much, much more.

You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again.

We didn't know if the rover could climb up or down the hills of the crater.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.