Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture.

Creativity in science could be described as the act of putting two and two together to make five

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it.

The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life.

Along the way I discovered that science was not the straightforward pursuit of truth one learned about in school. It, too, was full of interpretation, nuance, even ideology,

When you’re working at being relevant you’re acknowledging that you’ve somehow been left behind. And I think we have to go beyond relevance to creativity. Instead of reacting and responding to culture we should be creating culture.