Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and subtler than our latest theory about it. It is about reverence, not mastery.

We don't consider the roles that we're taking in making the world the way it is.

I like to travel and connect.

For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.