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Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn't on a box.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

I was interested in telescopes and the way they worked because I had an intense desire to see what things looked like, so I learned how to use telescopes and find things in the sky.

We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone in the atmosphere around our Earth. Also looking at life science. And on a human level, using ourselves as test subjects.

I'm interested in light. It's a very direct, pragmatic, American, rather naive approach.

But optics sharp it needs, I ween, To see what is not to be seen.

I would love to study photography.

Photography helps people to see.

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.