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

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

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.

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

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.

Our story has been told, our song has been sung.You're a road I’ve already traveled, and from it, I have moved on."Already Traveled

No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.

Every time, I try to make something different.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough, good omens appear.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

If the Sunday had not been observed as a day of rest during the last three centuries, I have not the slightest doubt that we should have been at this moment a poorer people and less civilized.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

Our motto must continue to be perseverance. And ultimately I trust the Almighty will crown our efforts with success.