All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it... →
Dimitar Sasselov
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically... →
We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with... →
Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring.
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The... →
People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have... →
The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we... →
There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that... →
When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important... →