Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.

The secret of improved plant breeding, apart from scientific knowledge, is love.

The scientist is a lover of truth for the very love of truth itself, wherever it may lead.

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind.

Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of it without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.

Digital technology can be a great resource, but it can also be a pernicious one, so it's how we, as a society, really study the cognitive impact of that and use evidence-based research to go after the technology designers to do a better job of dealing with the problems of memory and attention we are seeing.