61 Quotes by Don Brownlee

About 10 per cent of this comet is made of organic materials. We don't know exactly what they all are but it is very exciting.

It's a crystalline silicate grain. This is great; we've already got scientific results.

It's a very exciting mystery story. So stay tuned.

It's hard to describe what it feels like to finally be here.

The biggest impacts were big enough to put your little finger in.

It's hard to convey to people how tense these situations can be.

In recent decades, spacecraft have passed fairly close to comets and provided us with excellent data. Stardust, however, marks the first time that we have ever collected samples from a comet and brought them back to Earth for study.

You can't see them with the unaided eye (but) with the aided eye (through a microscope) you can see everything. A little particle blown up to high magnification is like working on an entire state! It's amazing.

These are literally the building blocks of our planetary system. Personally, I feel a strong attachment to this thing and we should all feel a strong attachment to it because the fact is all the atoms in our bodies -- the carbon atoms and the oxygen, nitrogen, potassium and calcium and so forth -- all those atoms were in stardust rings ... before the solar system formed.