I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.

If Darwin could see what we now see, what we now know about the ocean, about the atmosphere, about the nature of life, as we now understand it, about the importance of microbes - I think he would just beam with joy that many of the thoughts and the glimpses of the majesty of life on Earth that he had during his life, now magnified many times over.

There's plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

Most of life on Earth has a deep past, much deeper than ours. And we have benefited from the distillation of all preceding history, call it evolutionary history if you will.

Far and away, the greatest threat to the ocean, and thus to ourselves, is ignorance. But we can do something about that.

Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.