Tabetha S. Boyajian

I just don't know where my head is sometimes.

There's planets, life in the universe. You don't talk about that in high school - or maybe I skipped class that day.

I was a bad egg. I didn't like going to class.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and it is my job, my responsibility, as an astronomer to remind people that alien hypotheses should always be a last resort.

The human brain has an amazing ability for pattern recognition, sometimes even better than a computer.