- The really cool thing about microscope technology
is being able to see like a whole invisible world
that's happening, but we can't see with our naked eye,
and being able to see all that in really amazing detail.
It's like a tiny parallel universe that, you know,
is just existing alongside us or maybe even inside of us.
Yeah, that's happening along, like at a very small scale.
- Sometimes we see something that we didn't expect.
And so we, in that case, learn something entirely new.
And again, that's the most exciting thing of all.
It's satisfying to have your predictions confirmed
at some level.
But even more exciting to see something new
that wasn't imagined before.
- The most exciting thing I think about microscopy,
which I thought from a very young age
as an undergraduate student,
was the fact that I could see things
that I was not able to see with my naked eye.
And what you don't see
is what you don't think about, generally.
I was like, "Oh, there's so many bacteria,"
for example, "on my skin."
When I listened to other scientists talk about stuff,
they're like, "Oh, there's millions of bacteria
on a small patch of skin."
And I was like, "Wow, I have these on me,
but I cannot see them."
How 'bout I do something to see them and learn them better?
So that's why microscopy, that is the biggest excitement
that I have with microscopes is just the unknown going in,
not knowing what I'll find that day.