No one planet can tell us everything about the universe, but Neptune seems to hold more than its share of information about the formation of our own solar system - as well as the solar systems beyond. Heidi Hammel More Quotes by Heidi Hammel More Quotes From Heidi Hammel If I see something that seems out of sync with what's already known, the first thing I do is try to find out what's wrong with the data. Once you've done that, and it still seems wrong, that's when things get interesting. It means you've found something new to understand. Heidi Hammel newunderstandseeyou We thought of Uranus's atmosphere as pretty much dead. And it's not. Heidi Hammel deadprettythoughtatmosphere You have to budget time for the inevitable problems that come up with children. You have to always be ahead of the game. If your proposal is due at NASA on Friday, it has to be finished on Wednesday because, on Thursday, it could be fevers and head lice. Heidi Hammel gameyoutimechildren I don't think I could advocate for increasing NASA's budget by a factor of two or ten, because I want us to have good roads in our country. I want us to have good education in our country. And NASA's budget is part of a discretionary budget, and we can't make that bigger without taking away other things. Heidi Hammel roadsgoodthinkeducation 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. Heidi Hammel needmoneyspacescience My sense, talking to the general public around the country, is that most people don't have a very high level of scientific literacy. Heidi Hammel hightalkingcountrypeople
