Collaboration across borders is essential to solve the global challenges of food security and ocean health.

Leadership is about making the tough calls and standing by them.

The laws of physics are universal, and testing them in extreme environments like the galactic center is essential.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.