48 Quotes by Donald Brownlee

They always ended up with a rigid, crusty material. If you were standing on it you might go right through it.

Scientifically, that's great, because there's been lots of discussion of whether comets contain minerals or glass.

The most interesting thing about comets is they are libraries with the stored records of our formation.

That's why we were jumping up and down. We were totally overwhelmed by the ability to actually see this.

It is quite exciting to find these things at the edge of the solar system.

It's not much, but still it's so much that we're almost overwhelmed. The first grain we worked on, we haven't even cut into the main part of the particle yet.

For all the ideas and theories that people might have, we have some real ground truth.

It's thrilling. We have samples of a comet from the edge of the solar system.

It's certain such materials never formed inside this icy, cold body.