The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

I hope climate science becomes the big thing. And then what I want is electrical engineers to solve the world's energy problems, energy distribution problems. I want mechanical engineers to make better transportation systems. I want chemical engineers to develop better solar panels, and so on.

People that don't want to get down to the business at hand. Instead of just doing less, we have to find ways of doing more with less. That's the key to the future.

One of the drawbacks of English is you can't spell things by hearing them.

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to be a more accurate, more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us than what I and everybody in here can observe. That, to me, is unsettling.

Science provides a much more satisfactory way to seek answers than does any religion.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.