I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.

The philosophy of science is inherent in the process. This is to say, you think critically, you draw a conclusion based on evidence, but we all pursue discovery based on our observations. That's where science starts.

Intuitively you want some place [such as your phone] to store phone numbers, so you have that part of your brain to do other tasks.

If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

The information you get from social media is not a substitute for academic discipline at all.

Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.

The strange thing about grinding that might surprise many people is that you can grind things and shape them using materials that are generally somewhat softer than the thing you're grinding and shaping.