The fact that this chain of life existed [at volcanic vents on the seafloor] in the black cold of the deep sea and was utterly independent of sunlight - previously thought to be the font of all Earth's life - has startling ramifications. If life could flourish there, nurtured by a complex chemical process based on geothermal heat, then life could exist under similar conditions on planets far removed from the nurturing light of our parent star, the Sun.

NASA's annual budget for space exploration could fund NOAA's budget for ocean exploration for 1600 years.

I learned how to order my thoughts, and most important, learned how to develop a plan. I discovered the power of a plan. If you can plan it out, and it seems logical to you, you can do it. And that was the secret to success.

You can only inspire when you give people a new way of looking at the world in which they live.

I would have to say my favorite place on Earth is Bora Bora.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

I can't travel without Sudoku.