No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership... these are scientific values we can point to.

I am fascinated by the engineering. The science of constructing and understanding why it stands. And I am drawn by the madness, the beauty, the theatricality, the poetry and soul of the wire. And you cannot be a wire-walker without mingling those two ways of seeing life.

One of the wonders of science is that it is completely universal. It crosses national boundaries with total ease.

Once you have an innovation culture, even those who are not scientists or engineers - poets, actors, journalists - they, as communities, embrace the meaning of what it is to be scientifically literate. They embrace the concept of an innovation culture. They vote in ways that promote it. They don't fight science and they don't fight technology.