There are times when your mind isn't ready to go but your body is, and times when your body is ready to go but your mind isn't. You try to get the two in sync as much as possible.

When I left Tampa Bay, I felt like if my career ended at that point, I'd be okay.

We don't even think about it out there. We just focus on doing our job. The ball is the same baseball, the game is the same game. We're going to just keep trying to do our jobs.

Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.

It truly seems to me that there is some kind of shift happening towards ecological awareness - not just in terms of PR for the science.

New Horizons is a very high-tech, small, roughly 1,000-pound spacecraft with the most powerful battery of scientific instrumentation ever brought to bear on a first reconnaissance mission.

In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern.

Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.