If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life.

I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there.

Don't get in the way of children who find it natural and obvious to explore the world around them - even if it means they make a mess of your kitchen or living room. It's all about your perspective on these things. Let them play. When you do, the kids do not have to be reintroduced to ways of questioning nature, and the task of promoting science would be a trivial exercise.

Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn’t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth.

People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others.

Science is a fundamental part of our existence.