As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
“I felt that chess... is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.”
“For me, science is already fantastical enough. Unlocking the secrets of nature with fundamental physics or cosmology or astrobiology leads you into a wonderland compared with which beliefs in things like alien abductions pale into insignificance.”