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

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

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

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

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

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.