"I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about."
"Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults."
"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
"Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."
"The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."