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

I want to give people theories, I want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.

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.

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

The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [T.S.] Eliot wrote. 'But less talent was wasted.

It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. This is why we need art. By expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.

To have a style is to be stuck.