I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.

When you start to crack open, don't waste a moment gathering your old self up into something like you knew before. Let your new self splash like sunlight into every dark place and laugh and cry and make sounds you never made & thank all that is holy for the gift.

There really is only one story that you need to tell as a scientist or a technologist. It's Prometheus stealing fire. That's it. That's what we do as scientists or technologists.

There is nothing more I ask of this life than this moment, exactly so. And suddenly forever seems like too short a time.

Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.

I hope someday you see this is all life wants: for you to be your own kind of beautiful & not the kind that makes you forget who you are.

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'