"The greatest discoveries are not made in the laboratory, but in the mind."

"If you are a scientist, you are a scientist. You don't have to be a 'black scientist' or a 'woman scientist.'"

"The universe is far more interesting than any human-made myth."

"The best thing about being a scientist is that you get to ask 'why?' all the time."

"We are stardust. We are golden. We are billion-year-old carbon. And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden."