Steven Squyres Quotes

We’re stunned by the diversity of rocks. This stuff looks like it was put into a blender.

– Steven Squyres

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

– Steven Squyres

The thing that sets Mars apart is that it is the one planet that is enough like Earth that you can imagine life possibly once having taken hold there.

– Steven Squyres

We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

– Steven Squyres

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

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

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

This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.

– Steven Squyres

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

– Steven Squyres

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

– Steven Squyres

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

That’s really what science is just trying to figure stuff out, and I like figuring stuff out.

– Steven Squyres

I can’t ever remember not wanting to be a scientist.

– Steven Squyres

When we opened our eyes, we saw bedrock exposed in the walls of the crater.

– Steven Squyres