America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin

There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all.

If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist.

These are two different exercises. One of them is, "You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen," and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else.

I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

I don't want to die ... I don't want to die poor. Two great motivators in the history of human cultures.