Don Brownlee People Quotations

People all over world will be able to analyze them down to a single atomic scale.

We were jumping up and down ? we were totally overwhelmed by the ability to see this so quickly and so straightforwardly. We were the first people in the history of the planet to see comet dust in hand.

We have a crew onboard of over a million people -- their names are etched in a little silicon chip. As an astrobiology-type person, I'm intrigued by the thought that those names and that spacecraft will far outlive the Earth. When the Sun becomes a red giant and scorches the Earth, that spacecraft and those names will still be floating around the galaxy somewhere.

We weren't quite sure how bright it was going to be and some people didn't think we would see anything.

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