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"Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me."
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"The more the heart is sated with joy, the more it becomes insatiable."

"When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it."

"My sense was that most of the elected officials in Washington - in their heart of hearts - really believe that the system can't be too bad because it produced them."

"It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good."

"Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising."

"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
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"I think a benefit is that we try to put it up in a short time. From the decision to do this mission until we fly, it's six months and one week or so, so it's a very short time."

"My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe."

"We have the Fine Guidance Sensors, one of which we will exchange out of three. Another one we changed on the last servicing mission, and on the fourth servicing mission in 2003 or 2004, the third one will be exchanged."

"My first dream as a child was to become a pilot. My second dream was to become an astronomer, and I pursued in parallel efforts and studies in these two areas."

"I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person."

"Then, much later, my next dream was to become an astronaut, and I was fortunate to realize that dream, also."

"We developed already, before the first servicing mission, this has been further developed on the second servicing mission and we refined it this time, all the terminology."

"You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers."

"The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place."

"In general, the objects in the universe that are very high-energy objects, or the processes that are high-energy processes, will radiate more in the short wavelength range towards the gamma rays or the x-rays."
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