Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

It is well to look around at whom, and not just what, surrounds us. Population structure will change everything. Our health, wealth, and peace depend on it.

My entire youth was spent with an incredibly ill parent... I don't think you can grow up that way and not be marked by that experience.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Indian science has a bright future.

Many differences are rooted in biology and reinforced through culture, so it's important to acknowledge that. Because if you say men and women are the same and if male behaviour is the norm, and women are always expected to act like men, we will never be as good at being men as men are.

Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased.

My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.