Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

- Carolyn Porco

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the subli…

- Carolyn Porco

Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much more sophisticated than Voyager, ... I can…

- Carolyn Porco

Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior, their comings and goings, ho…

- Carolyn Porco

We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse of unexplored territory remain…

- Carolyn Porco

There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see …

- Carolyn Porco

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.

- Carolyn Porco

The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you will, the mind of God.

- Carolyn Porco

While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the imaging team and started working on data from Saturn.…

- Carolyn Porco