When we venture beyond the edge of our knowledge, all we have is art.

The best way to solve a problem? Try explaining it to somebody outside your field.

To have a style is to be stuck.

People assume that they perceive reality as it is, that our senses accurately record the outside world. Yet the science suggests that, in important ways, people experience reality not as it is, but as they expect it to be.

Just because an idea is true doesn't mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn't mean it's true.

I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.