For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that lasted the 20 years we were together.

If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

People think that if you are a scientist you have to give up that joy of discovery, that passion, that sense of the great romance of life. I say thats completely opposite of the truth.

The only gratification that science denies to us is deception.