Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

The best scientists that I've met are those that are humanists and scientists at the same time.

There is a construct in computer programming called 'the infinite loop' which enables a computer to do what no other physical machine can do - to operate in perpetuity without tiring. In the same way it doesn't know exhaustion, it doesn't know when it's wrong and it can keep doing the wrong thing over and over without tiring.

Too little confidence, and you're unable to act; too much confidence, and you're unable to hear.

Research universities need excellent means to communicate and express their results to regular people.

We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.

Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.