We need to be willing to risk embarrassment, ask silly questions, surround ourselves with people who don't know what we're talking about. We need to leave behind the safety of our expertise.

The only way to maximize group creativity—to make the whole more than the sum of its parts—is to encourage a candid discussion of mistakes. In part, this is because the acceptance of error reduces cost. When you believe your flaws will be quickly corrected by the group, you're less worried about perfecting your contribution, which leads to a more candid conversation. We can only get it right when we talk about what we got wrong.

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

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.

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

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

[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that's often not the case. 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. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.