Eric Stackpole

I'm starting to realize like maybe it doesn't have to be going right to the edge of the known.

It might just have to be right to the edge of the experienced.

You know, how do you make people experience that magnificent sky of stars or bioluminescence for themselves?

So who knows where it'll go next?

But right now, that's been the interest is really trying to make the experience of wonder become more available, even if it's not scientific exploration, it's exploration within oneself.

Okay.

I think people should learn that there is always a lot more to the story than meets the eye.

I gave that example of if you hear about this animal that's called a dog and it has four legs and it does a thing called barking, then you feel like you know a dog.

But when you spend time with it,

You really know a dog.

Knowing names of all the birds is not knowing the birds.

You have to understand their character.

And for any young explorers or people who are just getting into it, just realize that once you've seen something, you don't know it yet.

You can always go deeper.

OK.

feel, I think I'd like people to really connect with the thing that we had when we were young, that childlike wonder.

I know it sounds sort of hippie-ish or something, but I really believe that even scientists should always be in touch with what a place feels like, to not lose touch of that.

Because I think after all, a lot of the reason we explore ultimately is for

that greater understanding of how we are in all of it.

And to be in awe, even if that means not understanding, but just being in a daze by what we experience, that's still an important part of scientific exploration.