Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.

Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination

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

One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.

I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does.

This universe knows about me and my crops.