In the sciences, we celebrate big ideas. We celebrate equations that stitch the invisible world of atoms to the world we touch. We celebrate the people who see patterns the rest of us miss. But we rarely celebrate something more fundamental: the whole human mind that carries those ideas, with its strengths, its limits, and its storms. Today, we are
His parents raised him as a Quaker with earnest values: to live one’s life, not on a set of beliefs or utterances of God, but rather to exist as a testimony to the world.