Social media takes time and careful, strategic thought. It doesn't happen by accident.

- Brian Boyd

I think that's an important part of art in general. Especially in literature, in stories, we play with eventualities that may put us through a lot of…

- Brian Boyd

Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, n…

- Brian Boyd

Scientists, to give them credit, do not think of the humanities in a negative way. It's the bureaucrats who want to cut costs who think, Well, here's…

- Brian Boyd

Everything is humanities. The sciences are a form of the humanities. They involve traditions of inquiry; they involve social engagement with ideas. T…

- Brian Boyd

In fiction the story lives the more everyone comes to life, the more each character seems to exist in his or her own right.

- Brian Boyd

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is we've evolved to f…

- Brian Boyd

Perhaps the most demanding trick in all of art is to know ways that are going to capture the attention of an audience right now, and yet to also hold…

- Brian Boyd

There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. The…

- Brian Boyd