Christina Koch Quotes

I think publishing is a cost of research in the same way as buying a centrifuge is a cost of research.

Handle your tools without mittens.

Some of my friends snowmobile. I'm a little scared of it.

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

We have to be plumbers, electricians, construction engineers, or workers, on the space station, but at the same time running a laboratory, being scientists, being the best laboratory assistants we can be. It's all in a bundle; it's very exciting, it's a lot of fun.

Our users are trapeze artists, high school football coaches - I got cornered by a couple of theoretical physicists who said Dropbox lets them collaborate across the world and share their experiments' results. They were raving about how it's driving their research.

I wear sunglasses because of the glare of the spotlights. I wear gloves because it is very cold in the U.K.

For me, riding a two-wheeler bike was very risky. Counting the pedal strokes before turning a corner and learning to hear the sounds coming from buildings, grass and the climbing frame made all the difference to basic survival and ensured that I didn't end up head-first in the sandpit.

I was one who liked to work with my hands as well as my brain.

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

I have played in rain before. I have played in wind before. I have played in cold before, but not all put together. They were the hardest conditions I ever played in.

What I found was that I thoroughly enjoyed the plumbing of experiment.

I love the sun; I would have trouble living in Canada.

When I was at the South Pole, the coldest it got - and I didn't go outside - was minus 111. That was during the winter, so it's dark 24 hours a day, and for some of our jobs, we are required to go outside, even in weather like that.

I like to think of 'the studio' as a laboratory where I can go in, learn tricks, apply, revise, and release. I'd figure I had about the same emotional attachment to my craft as a guy over at NASA does over... NASA stuff.

It's tough to run fast and jump off roofs when your feet are freezing off!

I like snow, but I don't want to live in Siberia.

One of the problems trying to play an instrument outside in the cold is your fingers give up on you and you can't wear gloves, even fingerless.

Most young kids can't figure out how to shoot.

I would encourage anybody who's interested in any kind of science, engineering, math field, to go after that.

I don't think I could survive in cold places.

Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes. But we walk a narrow path with pitfalls on either side. If we spend all our time developing equipment, we risk the appellation of "plumber," and if we merely use the tools developed by others, we risk the censure of our peers for being parasitic.

My mom's a chemist, so she's pretty smart. I love technology and I can handle myself around a computer.

The gloves are like a second skin. They are part of me. An extension of me. I become hyperreal.