The ocean feeds us, and it's our responsibility to ensure we feed it back with care and respect.

I like to think of mathematics as a kind of poetry.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last, you create what you will.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.