Eugene Parker

I always looked at myself as a physicist learning new tricks by looking at nature. ”

I was always fascinated by how things work and learning about them. ”

One simply runs out of energy as you get old. One doesn't take on new tasks of exploration because it takes an extended period of intense thinking and working on it, and that becomes impractical. ”

The sun is the primary puzzle in the universe. ”

The solar probe is going to a region of space that has never been explored before. It's very exciting that we'll finally get a look. One would like to have some more detailed measurements of what's going on in the solar wind. I'm sure that there will be some surprises. There always are. ”

Space, the whole universe - I know no better place to find new physics. ”

I'm proud of the fact that I thought of the solar wind. It was an exercise in pursuing curiosity, which is the main motivation for studying physics from a personal standpoint. ”