Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

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.

Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live.

It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say.

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

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.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.