Science is not about control. It is about cultivating a perpetual condition of wonder in the face of something that forever grows one step richer and deeper than our latest theory about it.
The best leaders are those most interested in surrounding themselves with assistants and associates smarter than they are.
Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.