What do you gain most satisfaction from?

What do you gain most satisfaction from?

Colin Pillinger (Professor of Planetary Sciences) gives expert video advice on: Is it your life ambition to find life on other planets?; Who inspired you to search for extraterrestrial life? and more...

If you're trying to discover something, the satisfaction obviously comes from being first. You can't be the second person to discover anything. When it comes to discovering life, if you're the person that discovers life, that would be pretty timeless. You'd be remembered forever, so that would bring a lot of satisfaction. I think that would bring a lot of satisfaction for the 500 to 600 people that probably touched, or came in contact with people, too closely. It probably would be satisfying for the population as a whole. If we win the World Cup, everyone says, "We won the World Cup," they don't say anything about the money. Or, "There's a lot of times when we won it," so everyone's going to benefit.