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. With all that data coming in, the imaging team didn't have enough hands or scientists to work on all of it.

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't say it's got that flavor of romance, though. Voyager was very romantic. Cassini is spectacular.

Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and beauty. It is already so much more glorious and awesome - and even comforting - than anything offered by any scripture or God concept I know.

Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.

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.

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

Saturn is the most photogenic planet in the solar system.