Early success is a terrible teacher. You're essentially being rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation where you must prepare, you can't do it. You don't know how.

As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.

Every single day you're the result of what you did on the days prior.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Scientific literacy is one of the underpinnings of everything I do. It's why I work with schools. It's why I teach at university. I do a lot of outreach to try and improve general scientific literacy, but the core of all scientific literacy is just literacy.