Culture's essential service to a religion is to destroy intellectual idolatry, the recurrent tendency in religion to replace the object of its worship with its present understanding and forms of approach to that object.

It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable.

Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I know no other country where accountants have a higher social and moral status.

The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

Movement and physics: These are the fundamentals of animation. You don't notice that stuff if it's done well, but if fabric or liquid or hair moves weird, your brain is like, 'Wait, that's not real.'

Negative gender stereotypes related to girls' education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics begin as early as primary school and have the devastating effect of making them doubt their own potential.

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.