What the American family does not want is to pay an increasing fraction of their budget, their precious dollars, for energy costs.

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.

My books are my brain and my heart made visible.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

i"ll always catch you when you fall." -Daniel, , torment

Life was a series of greetings and farewells, one was always saying good-bye to something, to someone.

We can be eaten by techniques and forget what we have inside of us.

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism.

Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.

Bigger films are more difficult because the number of people is so huge.

That's what a community is: taking for granted certain assumptions, not having to start from zero every time. This is no longer true.

You need messiness and magic, serendipity and insanity. Creativity comes from time off, and time out.