More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

Her death contributed to my later interest in studying biochemistry, an interest that has not been fulfilled in the sense that my accomplishments remain more at the basic than the applied level.

An unexpected benefit of my career in biochemistry has been travel.

If the history of resistance to Darwinian thinking is a good measure, we can expect that long into the future, long after every triumph of human thought has been matched or surpassed by 'mere machines,' there will still be thinkers who insist that the human mind works in mysterious ways that no science can comprehend.

At its core, what we do in 'MythBusters' is turn science into an adventure.

The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

I love math and science, and also, my mom is a doctor. I grew up not even having an awareness that women were not supposed to be good at science.