Dimitar Sasselov quotes

“When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the plurality of worlds will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : Dimitar Sasselov (2012). “The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet”, p.16, Basic Books

#Home Quotes #World Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

#Stars Quotes #Dark Quotes #Marine Quotes

“Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

#Natural Quotes #Social Quotes #Explanation Quotes

“My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So thats how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.

#Parent Quotes #Hobbies Quotes #Telescopes Quotes

“We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

#Rocks Quotes #Water Quotes #Needs Quotes

“In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

#Lifetime Quotes

“It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : "Starmen: Wolfgang Tillmans meets Dimitar Sasselov". Interview with Chris Hatherill, www.dazeddigital.com. August 20, 2010.

#Discovery Quotes #Looks Quotes #Exploration Quotes

“Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.”
-- Dimitar Sasselov

Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

#Children Quotes #Parent Quotes #Compare Quotes

“I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.”

“Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.”

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.”

“Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.”

“Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.”

Source : A. D. Coleman (1995). “Critical Focus: Photography in the International Image Community”, Nazraeli Press

“Tomorrow, more's the pity, Away we both must hie, To air the ditty and to earth I.”

“A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth.”

Source : Abraham Verghese (2012). “Cutting for Stone”, p.121, Random House India

“For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.”