The one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know.

Rejection process is not fun. It's the red pen on the page, the discarded sketch, sometimes is the only way forward.

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.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

there simply is no way to describe the past without lying. Our memories are not like fiction. They are fiction.

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.