When you search for excellence, if you have a blind-spot bias against people who don’t look like you, then we have yet to reach the colorblind societ… - Neil deGrasse Tyson

There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver. How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, "I wasn't trained for this!" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, "Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!" Oh, and, have fun along the way.

America is indeed a land of opportunity. Why else would so many immigrants want to come here — all the time — in search of freedom and prosperity.

There is no America as we know it without the stories and ambitions of immigrants.

Sometimes I wonder if, at bird gatherings, they insult the stupid ones among them by calling them "human brains"?