I enjoyed mathematics from a very young age. At the beginning of college, I had this illusion, which was kind of silly in retrospect, that if I just understood math and physics and philosophy, I could figure out everything else from first principles.

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things.

My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.

There was a period in my life when I was eating ramen non-stop. These days, less so. Once you have a kid, you end up eating a lot of foods with broccoli in them.

For almost a century, the Universe has been known to be expanding as a consequence of the Big Bang about 14 billion years ago. However, the discovery that this expansion is accelerating is astounding. If the expansion will continue to speed up, the Universe will end in ice.

The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.