Writing

"It is archaeology seen in real time, a calling card of sorts to the cosmos: Here on Earth, we have transcended the boundaries of the planet. ... With ingenuity and desire, we have extended the environment of our planet into space."

"Alien life may not be something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a curve approaching its asymptote. For all our desire to know who’s out there, that may have to be enough."

"The places in JWST’s first images are not places for us. But instead of seeking to speckle them with familiar, Earthly worlds, we can give in to the alienation and embrace the loneliness, let it transmute into a new kind of awe."

"To see Earth as a planet is to see it as one of many, among comrades in the solar system and kin in the cosmos, just one of what turn out to be bountiful worlds."