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.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It's a skill.

Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. Science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. Neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural

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.

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.

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.