Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big.

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobody had heard of my brothers and cousins.

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre.

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture regions today will be wiped out.

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

I'm the least-educated person in my immediate family. My two other brothers have multiple advanced degrees, and I only have one. [...] Actually, now that I've got a Nobel Prize, I feel equal.

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot.

Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.

Legalism says God will love us if we change. The gospel says God will change us because He loves us.

It was a broken world, I knew then, that would allow a boy such as me to bury a boy such as William K.

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

Art is not about understanding, it’s about experience.

Love can be sordid only if you work at it.

If we want our regulators to do better, we have to embrace a simple idea: regulation isn't an obstacle to thriving free markets; it's a vital part of them.

Mandy is not calm. So that's acting. I'm acting. And, and I love playing someone calm.

Maine should be pleased that its animal is not a waverer, and rather than fight, lets the primed quill fall. Shallow oppressor, intruder, insister, you have found a resister.

If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you cannot aspire. You do not lift up from this earth.