The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.

I don't think I'm always right, but I would like to empower people to come to sound conclusions using a systematic way of looking at things.

When we have learned something, there's this thing called belief perseverance. Having learned something, we tend to cling to that belief, even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.

The power of art is that it can connect us to one another, and to larger truths about what it means to be alive and what it means to be human.

It's getting harder and harder to know, when you find things on the Internet, what you can believe and what you can't.

For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

I think, though, that we need to be armed with the critical thinking skills that lawyers and scientists and journalists such as yourself have. We all need to have those as we make our way through the day. And they're not that hard to acquire.