Art.

Learning to hold a knife the way I hold a pencil let me enter a different world — one where an order slowly emerges out of disorder. That, I have come to think, is what imagination and creativity really are: essential thinking mechanisms for a mind in quest of conceptual answers to the modern world's unresolved scientific problems. Painting did not pull me away from that work; it gave the same mind new routes to think along. And more quietly, it gave me courage — the willingness to take a risk, to commit a line that cannot be undone, and to believe.