I don't recall my parents ever steering me toward or away from science. It was more that I was steered toward learning and excellence in the classroom.

In little localized pockets, the universe is capable of building some beautiful complexity.

The realization that baryonic matter is only a trace component of the universe revealed our understanding of the cosmos as shockingly incomplete and was one of the milestones that ushered in the era of modern cosmology.

I take comfort in the fact that it is a beautiful universe, and we belong here and that we fit. This is our home.

I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.

When you're playing the part of a saxophone or a trumpet player, both of which I have done, it would be nice to be able to play like John Coltrane, but you can't. Your job is to do something else. And I'm not sure what it is, but I don't think I'd be acting Niels Bohr any better if I went and studied physics for five years.

I was a science guy in school, numbers and science and formula: what made things work and how to bring them forward - not what happened.

If we can actually decrease the failure rate from nine out of 10 drugs failing in clinical trials and instead have seven out of 10 instead failing, that is a major victory for drug discovery and for people having better therapy.