I don't like saying 'no' to people, and I'm going to have to learn how to say 'no' more.

Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes you start thinking like other people. You're better off having a vague sense of what's going on and making your own way.

We can track and see the production of single molecules, trace them and see how they assemble into structures.

Sometimes I make an analogy that each scientific paper is like putting out another record. And some people have careers that are nothing but a one-hit wonder. And then there are people who are only appreciated by aficionados but largely forgotten by the wider community.

You need a continuous picture of how things are evolving, and not a slow series of snapshots where you don't know how frame A is related to frame B.

I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.