So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between.

Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day.

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.

One should not be too distracted by definitions. Ideas transcend definitions.

The tenacity of life is mind-boggling. We keep finding it where no one thought it could be.