Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. We're dreamers, you see, but we're also realists, of a sort.

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden.

No one can arrive from being talented alone, work transforms talent into genius.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.