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

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

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.

Peace is found when people stand for morality and rejectculture. Defend freedom at all costs and at all times and peacewill rule the world instead of tyrants.

The definition of the future is today

Liverpool has always made me brave, choice-wise. It was never a city that criticised anyone for taking a chance.

The success of a society is to be evaluated primarily by the freedoms that members of the society enjoy.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

The truth can be made up if you know how.

Change is an illusion.

Why did God make woman so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?