Dimitar Sasselov Quotes

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  • 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.

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

    Stars   Dark   Marine  
    "Professor Spotlight: Sasselov on Super-Earths". Interview with Brian C. Zhang, www.thecrimson.com. February 10, 2012.
  • Deep and elegant explanations relate to natural or social phenomena and the observer often has no place in them.

  • Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.

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

    Home   World   Earth  
    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
  • In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.

  • 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.

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

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