Steve Squyres Trying Quotations

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

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.

The British mountaineer George Mallory was once famously asked why he was trying to climb Mount Everest and his famous reply was 'because it is there.' That's a compelling argument when you are a mountaineer. But for an $850 million rover mission you better have a better reason than that.