Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
It's always interesting just to see how the human mind is relating to the natural universe, and what we try to make of it just so we can believe we understand what's going on.
People who are scientists today are scientists in spite of the system, typically, not because of it.
Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up.
One of my great laments is that education today seems to have... be less about passion and more about process, more about tactic or technique.
I think the greatest of people that have ever been in society, they were never versions of someone else. They were themselves.
I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.