What I love about how my career has gone up to this point is that I've always, always put my head down on my pillow at night, and I've been able to say that I've done, honestly, what I've felt like I wanted to do. And that's really all you can hope for in everything you do.
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.