The method we’re adopting is we’re going to be proactive. I think we’ve demonstrated that just by being proactive and using other methods of communication, both physically traveling and using the Internet and e-mails, we’ve...

In terms of major equipment, we won’t know until we can get back in.

It’s extremely dry. Open up any chemistry book, it’s awful. Everybody can do the volcano, everybody can do some of the science experiments where things flash and you get puffs of smoke. That’s fun, it’s...

Computer modeling is the work to be done initially. Lab work is a long way off. Years.

If there is a pie, there will be a piece for everybody.

What everyone wanted, and what Scripps needed, was certainty … and that’s what we got.

It’s a water cleanup effort. It’s not a hazardous cleanup.

The only thing I needed to do to pass the course was to know what the score was of the game the night before.

That is not going to happen this century unless we get more kids interested in science. We have 39 of the 50 best scientific institutions in the world. But U.S. enrollment is down and foreign...

We tell them about Earth science, astronomy, plant science and marine science. But what we don’t do is explain what the four basic sciences are and what the building blocks are. We go too broad...