Steven Squyres Quotes

"We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Hell, Winter)

"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: May)

"We're stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Diversity)

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

"This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Expectations, Mission)

"These rovers are living on borrowed time. We're so past warranty on them. You try to push them hard every day because we're living day to day."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Time, Day, Living, Past)

"That's really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Science, Trying)

"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."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Life, People, Questions)

"I want to make as many people as possible feel like they are part of this adventure. We are going to give everybody a sense of what exploring the surface of another world is really like."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: People, Adventure, Sense, Want, World)

"When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Eyes)

"I can't ever remember not wanting to be a scientist."
- Steven Squyres

"Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Trust, Public, Public trust, Responsibility)

"The rocks, to a great extent, look swept clean. It's a much cleaner surface than what we had a right to hope for."
- Steven Squyres
(Related: Hope, Right)