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

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

When religion talks about our aspirations and our sense of morality, I do not believe that science can contradict it. However, when religion contradicts science on matters of fact, religion must yield.

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

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.

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