People would like better batteries but they are wary of making investments. What is required is both a technology push and a market pull.

In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.

Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.

With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.

If you want to make something dirt cheap, make it out of dirt–preferably dirt that is locally sourced.

The liquid metal battery story is more than an account of inventing technology. It's a blueprint for inventing inventors.

The students who work with me believe in science in service of society, not science in service of career building.

A peaceful spirit, a prosperous soul.

And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment.

There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.

Most Korean parents saw themselves as coaches, while American parents tended to act more like cheerleaders.

I really feel vulnerable when I don't have the answer to something. When I feel lack of control, my nerves really kick in.

When it comes to hating, gossiping, ignoring, ridiculing, holding grudges, or wanting to cause harm, please apply the following: Stop it!

The fundamental principle of human action, the law, that is to political economy what the law of gravitation is to physics is that men seek to gratify their desires with the least exertion

All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.