So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

I believe [the Department of Energy] should be judged not by the money we direct to a particular State or district, company, university or national lab, but by the character of our decisions. The Department of Energy serves the country as a Department of Science, a Department of Innovation, and a Department of Nuclear Security.

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.