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I always like when things are loosely based on real events. That always makes it more interesting because there's a lot of research you can do.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

Science affects all our ways of thinking about the world: both the physical world, which, if I may make so bold, is easy to understand because it is regular and follows simple laws, and also the social world, which is more baffling and less predictable.

Science shouldn't be just for scientists, and there are encouraging signs that it is becoming more pervasive in culture and the media.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

I read science, because to me, that's extremely exciting. It's like a great detective story, and it's happening right in front of us.

If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.

I saw science as being in harmony with humanity.

I believe that natural history has lost much by the vague general treatment that is so common.