48 Quotes by Donald Brownlee

We were having a great time. We were really excited, and this did not go on for five minutes. It went on all day.

The prediction was that we would get a dozen particles larger than human hair size and one particle a little bit larger than a millimeter.

We opened the capsule yesterday and it's just full of comet dust.

We've brought back an ancient cosmic treasure from the very edge of the solar system.

When you have the samples in hand, it's a whole different universe.

We fully expect some of the comet particles to be older than the sun.

What was the chance someone would put a g-switch in backward and not be discovered, ... It has got to be a low probability event.

We?re using this comet as a library that picked up records and stored them far from the sun at very low temperatures for 4.5 billion years.

At this point in time, we're absolutely thrilled. It's totally remarkable to have a fully successful mission. Of all the things that could go wrong either in space or even scientifically, none of the bad things happened and everything really exceeded our wildest expectations.