About

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. -Thomas Jefferson I teach AP Physics and Astronomy at a private school in Nashville, TN. Prior to that, I worked in the Missile Defense Industry as a Senior Scientist for Northrop Grumman in Huntington Beach, CA. I have also worked as a professional astronomer at the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Scholar. I am married and have two wonderful daughters.

Education

• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Rhodes College
• Lajes High School, Terceira Island, the Azores, Portugal
• Tehran American School
• Beech High School

Favorite saying

• ""De omnibus dubitandum. (All is to be doubted.)" -Rene Descartes "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." -Wilson Mizner "Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous." -Kong Fuzi (Confucius) "Nothing has more retarded the advancement of learning than the disposition of vulgar minds to ridicule and vilify what they cannot comprehend." -Samuel Johnson "Foodies. If that don't f*** up paradise, I don't know what does." -Anthony Bourdain"