In junior high math I asked my teacher if I was ever going to use what he was teaching me, and he said no, you probably won’t, but a few kids will, and they can use it to make a difference.

I don’t claim to know very much, but there is so much to know, and as we set out into the universe, these are some of the conclusions I’ve come to, so other captains can use those tools to take their ships farther.

Other people’s experiments and the lessons they took from them are kept separately, in the Journal of Experiments. The essays and research live at Douglas Labs.