Avi Loeb

So my office is now a mini museum.

I then got from an artist in Florida, Peter Tooney, I got a huge piece of art that is bigger than my body.

I had to carry it to my office, which basically says, history awaits.

He was inspired by the kind of research I'm doing.

There was a musician, a songwriter from the UK, Olly Swan, that his manager, producer, sent me his song.

Aliens Are Real.

Aliens Are Real.

And I played it in my lecture, actually, at Harvard a week ago.

That's where I heard it.

Yeah, and they asked me for an endorsement, but the greatest reward is to see all these.

And there was a children's book about aliens sent to me from Brazil, where a class did that.

There was also a book of poems that were sent to me by Alan Wagstaff, a poet from New Zealand.

And so I feel that the artists are inspired.

There was also a new painting that I received just a few days ago by an artist.

And she said, her last name is Denning, and she said the name, the title of this piece is, it's a freaking...

I'm glad that you're featuring the artists because as important scientists are to our society, I think artists are equally as important to creativity and energy.

Yeah, they are definitely.

But the biggest reward I get is from parents writing to me, and I got hundreds of those, that their kids decide to pursue science after hearing me on television.

That to me is the biggest blessing of my appearances because I gave up on my senior colleagues changing their minds.

And my hope is that the young generation of fledgling scientists will be open-minded and will actually discover all the things that my generation missed.