#OverheardAtCarnegie: “You need biologists. Astrobiology without the bio is just astrology.”
February 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “You need biologists. Astrobiology without the bio is just astrology.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"
October 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Isotopes don't lie!!!"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "A payload mass of 42.5 kilograms means a launchpad mass of 15.5 metric tons. That's the tyranny of the rocket equation."
April 1, 2025 at 3:46 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "A payload mass of 42.5 kilograms means a launchpad mass of 15.5 metric tons. That's the tyranny of the rocket equation."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I need to take a nap for, like, a year.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Never let your instruments think you're afraid of them."
May 7, 2025 at 2:50 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Never let your instruments think you're afraid of them."
November 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'd say about 5% of my job is telling people that they did not, in fact, find a meteorite."
April 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'd say about 5% of my job is telling people that they did not, in fact, find a meteorite."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "If god created life, are we the best that god could do?"
May 28, 2026 at 2:57 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "If god created life, are we the best that god could do?"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Did you vibe code too close to the Sun?"
March 14, 2026 at 12:06 AM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Did you vibe code too close to the Sun?"
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “To zeroth order, the Solar System is the Sun and some dust. To first order, the Solar System is the Sun, Jupiter, and some dust.”
January 30, 2026 at 7:57 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “To zeroth order, the Solar System is the Sun and some dust. To first order, the Solar System is the Sun, Jupiter, and some dust.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I’ve noticed in my career that one person’s coding error becomes another person’s Nature paper.”
August 7, 2026 at 3:20 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “I’ve noticed in my career that one person’s coding error becomes another person’s Nature paper.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Those who look through microscopes too rarely talk to people who look through telescopes.”
February 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Those who look through microscopes too rarely talk to people who look through telescopes.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “If you think you know everything, then you really don’t know anything.”
February 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “If you think you know everything, then you really don’t know anything.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "If I learn one new thing every day, it's a good day."
April 29, 2026 at 1:36 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "If I learn one new thing every day, it's a good day."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “You learn something new every day! Of course, when you get to my age, you also forget something new every day!”
June 9, 2026 at 7:54 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “You learn something new every day! Of course, when you get to my age, you also forget something new every day!”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "What a time to be a scientist. What a time to be anything other than a billionaire."
February 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "What a time to be a scientist. What a time to be anything other than a billionaire."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “He wrote his thesis in Word?!?!”
February 11, 2025 at 7:40 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “He wrote his thesis in Word?!?!”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Someone could lose twenty pounds if they ran in my brain for an hour.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'm at that age now where if I have to learn something new, I have to forget something else to make room in my brain."
April 14, 2026 at 2:07 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I'm at that age now where if I have to learn something new, I have to forget something else to make room in my brain."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “This is why we’re really good—because we don’t agree with each other at all, but we still work together.”
February 12, 2026 at 5:06 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “This is why we’re really good—because we don’t agree with each other at all, but we still work together.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Penguins are a lie. It’s a conspiracy.”
April 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Penguins are a lie. It’s a conspiracy.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."
October 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "I can't believe you're making me draw circles again."
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “We’d like to acknowledge that Verizon significantly detracted from this research.”
February 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “We’d like to acknowledge that Verizon significantly detracted from this research.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”
October 3, 2025 at 1:36 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: “Life speculates to accumulate.”
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Proteins are so avant-garde. They remind me of modern art."
May 8, 2026 at 7:47 PM
#OverheardAtCarnegie: "Proteins are so avant-garde. They remind me of modern art."