"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."

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

Dimitar Sasselov

#Discovery Quotes #Looks Quotes #Exploration Quotes

“If you have something to say about somebody, look the person in the eye and say it.”
“The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our Solar system.”

Source : Edwin Powell Hubble (1920). “Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae ...”
“God sendeth cold after clothes.”

Source : "Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine". Book by William Camden, 1605.
“Men have always been permitted to be people. We have just recently made it.”

Source : EUGENIA PRICE (1959). “WOMAN TO WOMAN”
“I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.”
“Democracy will defeat the economist at every turn on its own genre.”
“I realised how rich I had become and I asked myself, 'Do I really want to be the richest person in the cemetery?”
“Who is left in the ghetto is the one man in a thousand in any age, in any culture, who through some mysterious workings of force within his soul will stand in defiance against any master. He is that one human in a thousand whose indomitable spirit will not bow. He is the one man in a thousand whose indomitable spirit cannot bow. He is the one man in a thousand who will not walk quietly to Umschlagplatz. Watch out for him, Alfred Funk, we have pushed him to the wall.”

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