"A crucial function of academic research is to produce knowledge that informs our collective decisions in a democracy.

"To live in hopeless times is not only subjectively to feel hopeless. It is for that feeling in a real way to reflect the way things are."

"Methods of thinking and observing are tightly implicated with wellbeing – not just for the human entity but also the non-human world."

"We don’t know not because we can’t know but because we don’t want to know."