“So much of science proceeds by telling stories.”

“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and seeatshops”

“Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity.”

“Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.”

“Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.”

“The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.”

“The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.”