My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics. He told us we were going ….

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us ….

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity..

While we cannot accurately predict the course of climate change in the coming decades, the risks we run if we don't change our course are enormous. P….

Science is really about describing the way the universe works in one aspect or another in all branches of science-how a life-form works, how this wor….

I've always been inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, who articulated his Dream of an America where people are judged not by skin color but "by the co….

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre..

So imagine a world 6 degrees warmer. It's not going to recognize geographical boundaries. It's not going to recognize anything. So agriculture region….

Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe..

Sustainable energy is the equivalent of the U.S. moon shot..

I called my mother up when they announced the Nobel Prize, waiting until 7 in the morning. She said, "That's nice - and when are you going to see me ….

Suppose you had a small electrical fire and... a structural engineer [looked] at your home's wiring [and] reports that the wiring is "shot" and there….

I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure..

For the better part of my last semester at Garden City High, I constructed a physical pendulum and used it to make a "precision" measurement of gravi….

Coal is my worst nightmare..

I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary t….

If I were emperor of the world, I would put the pedal to the floor on energy efficiency and conservation for the next decade..

Of course we don't want the price of gasoline to go up, we want it to go down..

At Rochester, I came with the same emotions as many of the entering freshman: everything was new, exciting and a bit overwhelming, but at least nobod….

Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road f….

Pick the right sized pot, don't pick a pot five times bigger, twice as big..