President Obama wants to increase the size of government and raise taxes, while I support less government and more individual freedom.

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.

As policymakers, we need to foster an environment that allows U.S.-based innovators and entrepreneurs to compete and to flourish. Excessive regulations and bureaucratic red tape dramatically increase the cost of doing business and create uncertainty for companies.

I am 90. I can work day or night. I'm the same guy, but the polls show the effect of age. That's the issue.

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.

When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.

If you're a white male growing up in this society, you're constantly receiving encouragement to go on in science in the form of all the images that you're receiving.

Scientific knowledge is a kind of discourse.