I'm convinced that art and science activate the same parts of the brain.

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

Many of my heroes, like Galileo, Maxwell, Newton and, less explicitly, Einstein thought what they were doing was finding out what God is. All of them had this inspiration that if you want to find out what God is, you have to look at his work.

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

The brain rewards us for interacting with beautiful things. In this way, evolution wants to encourage us to do what is good for us.

Why is there something rather than nothing?

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.