Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.