Anything important has to be almost invisible. And underrated. So the understructure should be underrated, but strong enough to hold the earth.

There's no precedent for women philosophers and there's no precedence for most of the things I did.

One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning.

Thinking has an understructure and underpinnings.

My work is about helping humanity.

I always was alone. And I'm alone today. It's fine. I have lots of friends, but not in terms of working together.

If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.