"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird. You'll only know about humans in different places a…"

"The world is full of people who are trying to figure out what's going on, and they're all wrong."

"You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like what they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing."

"I think that when you're doing science, you're trying to find out something that nobody knows."

"The world is a dynamic mess of jiggling things."