Dimitar Sasselov famous 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

#Home #World #Earth

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

#Stars #Dark #Marine

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

#Natural #Social #Explanation

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

#Parent #Hobbies #Telescopes

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

#Rocks #Water #Needs

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

#Lifetime

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

#Discovery #Looks #Exploration

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

#Children #Parent #Compare

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.

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.

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.

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.