“I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science us...” — Stephen Jay Gould Quote

I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors.

We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

I wasn't that academic, but I always made sure I was earning money. I never wanted to put all my eggs in one basket. Even when I started doing music, my parents were like, 'You need to work; you can't just live off music.' I always knew that. So I worked until I knew I was going to be financially okay.

I saw leaving college as an opportunity to do something different with my life. I always thought that becoming an academic was going to be my path.

Yes, well, inyeon is just really about human connectedness. It's something that, maybe even for me personally, this concept felt foreign to me and philosophical, maybe academic. But the reality is, for Koreans, it's a very casual concept used every day and can even be used to describe a relationship with an object.

I didn't enjoy studying for my A-levels, so didn't really want to go to University to do something overly academic, and when I saw that Creative Writing was an option, I suddenly realised that it was something I could try to do.