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I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

Hubble knows there is interesting stuff out there, but Hubble isn't quite big enough.

A Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the universe evokes far more awe for creation than light streaming through a stained glass window in a cathedral.

That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Even with an improperly ground mirror, the Hubble delivered extraordinary images. When the flaw was corrected, the Hubble delivered images of transcendent beauty and value for many years. So too 'Terra Nova.' Even in its flawed first season, each episode was full of marvelous moments and beautiful images.

Even Hubble hasn't found yet the end of this universe, and we don't know that it has any end.

It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

We are now able to put our minds in other places in the universe with the use of telescopes. That is very exciting.