The discovery of superfluidity opened up a new understanding in the science world.

Modern low temperature physics began with the liquefaction of helium by Kamerlingh Onnes and the discovery of superconductivity at the University of Leiden in the early part of the 20th century.

There are few moments in science in which you genuinely are excited. The discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 was one of those moments.

I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.

You have to be really willing to embrace life and life's turns, and play that for your audience, because there is value in every moment of that journey.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.