In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

Tears do not replace sweat, at least it never did in me... When I just cry, I'm in the same situation.

The pen is mightier than the sword as long as it doesn't run out of ink.

Off so stupid mothers... so stupid plans... what are you planning..., for god sake???

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

The beginning of Eternity, The end of time and space, The beginning of every end, And the end of every place. What am I?

In Mexico, everything on the menu is the same dish. The only difference is the way it's folded.

Medicine was certainly intended to be a career. I wanted to become a psychiatrist, an adolescent ambition which, of course, is fulfilled by many psychiatrists.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.