Pamela

“I was teaching introductory geology at Caltech for the first time. I’m not a geologist. I’ve never taken a single class in geology. If you gave me a handful of different types of rocks, chances are I could identify only a small number of them. I still get confused by the meanings of strike and dip. Luckily, most of my students didn’t realize this.”
― Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

“They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation.”
― Dean Koontz, Saint Odd

“Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“I grew up in Huntsville, Alabama, a thoroughly dedicated rocket town. The father of everyone I knew—mine included—was some sort of engineer working to build the Apollo rockets to send men to the moon. For a while as a child, I thought that when you grew up you became a rocket engineer if you were a boy and you married a rocket engineer if you were a girl; few other options in the world appeared to exist.”
― Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming