If you look at winners of the Nobel Prize in biology, you'll find a fair smattering of people who don't know how to work a pipette.

I don't work on longevity, I work on keeping people healthy.

Public enthusiasm for new advances is a key ingredient in influencing policy-makers to stimulate follow-up work with suitable funding, and it can be achieved far faster now that interested non-specialists can explore new research autonomously and can also be appealed to directly by scientists.

Most scientists will get serious media exposure about twice in their entire career. And they'll get that because they've actually done an experiment that was interesting.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

Theres no such thing as ageing gracefully. I dont meet people who want to get Alzheimers disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.

Wikipedia was a big help for science, especially science communication, and it shows no sign of diminishing in importance.