Our children's children will hear a good story.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

There was little in my early life to indicate that an interest in biology would become the passion of my academic career. In fact, there was little to suggest I would have an academic career.

We need to get across the excitement and creativity of science. That it isn't just a list of facts that have already been discovered - but a process, a creative project, that you are generating ideas, testing them and looking for evidence.

The science doesn't prove Common Core's effective. So I guess what I mean is science is an essential part of any decision-making process, and so is public involvement. And in the long-term, you lose legitimacy and power if you don't directly engage with the public.

People think acting is just memorizing lines and doing facial expressions. No it's about traveling along a path of discovery, intention and connection.