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.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The US Navy has several people on every ship that can navigate by the stars. They don't fool with that.

When we sit down to draw or paint the sun's rays, we generally use yellow because in the morning and the evening with the blue light scattered away so strongly you're left with a little bit of red and it comes out yellowish.

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.

Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder.

There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm.