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.

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.

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.

To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.

No house is big enough for the rule of two women.

Trust your gut feelings.

I don't want to become a diabetic.

Any degree of unemployment worries me.

I love the puzzled look on people's faces when I mention I grew up telling time according to television.

He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Nothing is fool-proof to a sufficiently talented fool.

War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.