Brian Schmidt Job Quotations

I am an astronomer, and my job is to look to the heavens to better understand the universe and our place in it.

I think a scientist's job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it's like art, it's like umm, music, it's aesthetics, it's like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.