An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

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

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

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

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.

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.