Jay Matthews

A step-by-step recipe for beauty:

Having an institution geared to producing really top-rate people who play within the system is not going to set the world on fire, but maybe we don’t  want  a world on fire.

"If stories are linked with regularly repeated spatial practices, they become mutually supportive, and when a story becomes sedimented into the landscape, the story and the place dialectically help to construct and reproduce each other. Places help to recall stories that are associated with them, and places only exist (as named locales) by virtue... See more

And we’re learning, how do you say goodbye to what is sacred and holy? And that goodbye has got to be — has got to be in deep thanksgiving for having been here, for being part of it... You can look in each other’s face, see how beautiful we are. It’s not too late to see that. We don’t want to die not knowing how beautiful this is.

Getting the attention and the following is also wonderful, but all too often it changes the vibe. The more you grow, the less depth you can have with people. It becomes something that needs to be managed.

These are powerful questions and I the version of it I would ask you today is:

1. What are you most curious about?


2. What is your unique perspective or way of helping in this domain?


3. Given the infinite resources available to you today, why are you doing nothing about this?

On early scientific discoveries: To peer into the nucleus and discover a new and important phenomenon that no one had ever glimpsed “was like the trembling of the veil that poets write about,” Wilczek says. “Something was stirring deep in the heart of nature.”