I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one.

But I’ve never seen the Icarus story as a lesson about the limitations of humans. I see it as a lesson about the limitations of wax as an adhesive.

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out.

I never trust anyone who's more excited about success than about doing the thing they want to be successful at.

You don't use science to show you're right, you use science to become right.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.

The role of gender in society is the most complicated thing I’ve ever spent a lot of time learning about, and I’ve spent a lot of time learning about quantum mechanics.

Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

You can't measure time in days the way you can money in dollars because each day is different.

The starting point is a question.

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved.

A Lannister always pays his debts.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

The hole was playing downwind and I managed to get a good bounce.

Hearts can never be stolen, Cy. They can only be given.” – Ren