Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Tabetha S. Boyajian.
Last updated on November 16, 2024.
Tabetha "Tabby" Suzanne Boyajian is an American astronomer of Armenian descent and astrophysicist on faculty at Louisiana State University. She was a post-doctoral fellow 2012–16 at Yale University, working with Debra Fischer. Boyajian is active in the astronomical fields of stellar interferometry, stellar spectroscopy, exoplanet research, and high angular resolution astronomy, all particularly at optical and infrared wavelengths. She was the lead author of the September 2015 paper "Where's the Flux?", which investigated the highly unusual light curve of KIC 8462852; the star is colloquially known as Tabby's Star in her honor.
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.
I just don't know where my head is sometimes.
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.