Robert M. Sapolsky

Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side

I love science, and it pains me to think that so many are terrified of the subject or feel that choosing science means you cannot also choose compassion, or the arts, or be awed by nature. Science is not meant to cure us of mystery, but to reinvent and reinvigorate it.

We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.