There are photons that have been traveling for 30,000 years, and I'm... snatching them from this journey and planting them into my digital detector. And then I started feeling bad for the photon, and I said maybe it wanted to continue but I got in its way. But then I said, no, those are probably happier photons than the one that slammed into the mountainside that will go unanalyzed and will not contribute to the depth of our understanding of the universe.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig.

WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay.

Thomas Jefferson basically secularized Jesus.

The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time.

Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach.