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It is important to fund young researchers who want to do curiosity-driven research. Curiosity-driven research is a part of life. Some people are curious. They want to learn more about nature and society should help that. It's like art: you can learn more and bring more beauty.

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Science is curiosity, testing and experimenting.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

The idea that science is just some luxury that you'll get around to if you can afford it is regressive to any future a country might dream for itself.

If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.

Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.'

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.

If I could snap my fingers and do one thing in science, I would get more funding for basic science. But the level of funding that needs to be done is not on the order of millions, like the cost of the Breakthrough Prizes. It's billions to tens of billions.