Basic research is to work at the very edge, the very border of, of knowledge, and move that border forward. You look and look for new secrets, and you don't know where it's going to lead you.

You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

I hold myself to a very high standard. But you're going to make mistakes. You've got to erase it and move forward.

You move forward through knowledge. You prevail through knowledge. I love the word 'prevail.' Prevail!

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.