Collaboration and sharing of knowledge are essential for the advancement of science.

Technology should serve the land, not dominate it.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.

"The writer is a man who is always trying to find the right rhythm, the right tone, the right voice for his story."

No matter how hard it is, I will never give up on my dreams.