The Origins of Mythology

How can we use what we learn in science to inform our societies? What values can we extract? I'm a poet, so if you think about political philosophy, the way that we organize our society. You need to be comfortable with holding those two ideas at right angles. It's not contradictory. And you have to do it in understanding quantum mechanics. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. There's another spiritual idea. We call them orthogonal in physics at right angles - they're mutually contradictory ideas. They feed off each other. So you can't have freedom without a society, and you can’t have a society without freedom.