Robert Sapolsky

“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.”

“I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.”