Scientists are keenly aware that the telescope is up there not doing anything. There's an enormous desire to get the telescope working. It's like a car -- you don't want to leave a car sitting in the garage not running. That's not good for it.

I will say to you what the scientists say about the small particles in the universe: I can't show you where they are, I can only show you where they were.

Meanwhile you look at the same field with the Chandra X-Ray observatory and you see a little beacon that says black hole here -- it points out where all of the black holes are in the field. You're testing very different types of physics, very different things -- a lot of synergy.

With SIRTF you'll be able to fill in that population of most distant objects,

We are closer to answering the question, 'Are we alone in the universe?' ... We aim to answer that question by looking for planets, eventually imaging them and ultimately diagnosing the presence of life on those planets.

All you have to do is look at the textbooks, ... They are being rewritten page by page, Hubble image after Hubble image.