“There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate caus...” — John C. Mather Quote

There's no such thing as saying that we'll ever find the ultimate cause of stuff. We can only work to push our understanding one step further.

There is strength in numbers, but organizing those numbers is one of the great challenges.

My work at NASA has always been about team efforts, and so it's intrinsically about mentoring. I have been blessed with some brilliant colleagues who were able to take on huge challenges without a lot of guidance.

I think my proper response is complete amazement and awe at the universe that we are in, and how it works is just far more complicated than humans will ever properly understand.

I had done some work when I was starting in with photography on westerns, and photographing them was the greatest pleasure I had. If I was ever qualified for anything, it would have had to do with making westerns. But as I started working on pictures with people like Katharine Hepburn, I got further away from the thing I really liked to do.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

My parents always wanted the very best for me and pushed me further and further, so that stuck with me.

Rajapaksa had said that giving political powers to Tamils is not his priority. He further stated that the majority Sinhalese are against the devolution of political powers for Tamils. The Sri Lankan president's statement has come as a shock for me.