"He hated adults making decisions for him and expecting him to just go along with whatever they said" (p. 7).

"Real science demands creativity and individuality...without creativity and individuality, there would be no scientific discovery. No Galileo, no Newton, no Einstein" (p. 18).

"It had been easy to blow off Traybridge Middle School. Everybody - kids, teachers, even the principal - had been scared of the bad kid from the city. Bad kid. Living up to that label was what Jake did best" (p. 43).

"Jeremy Bernstein was worried about a television show invading their family's privacy. That just showed how little he understood them. Every last one of them lived to be the center of attention" (p. 70).

"Jake sighed. It wouldn't be possible for Destiny to grow up to be a delinquent - there didn't seem to be any rules for him to break" (p. 74).

"Jake was beginning to...