...the computer models are very good at solving equations of fluid dynamics but very bad at describing the real world. The real world is full of things like clouds and vegetation and soil and dust which the models describe very poorly.

Aviation is the branch of engineering that is least forgiving of mistakes.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

For me, science is just a bunch of tools - it's like playing the violin.

People who travel in China tell me that the mood there is still very upbeat, because their media is different from our media. Chinese media emphasize how well things are going and suppress the bad news and publish the good news.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

You ask: what is the meaning or purpose of life? I can only answer with another question: do you think we are wise enough to read God's mind?