It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.

I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.

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.