Geller argued that attaching a monetary value to scientific wonder was 'as meaningless as attaching a price to being human.' She quoted the painter René Magritte: 'Each thing we see hides something else we want to see,' and observed that Magritte's paintings 'show us the irony of our vision by making us look at images we can never see in nature.' The connection between art and science was central to her speech. 'Like the artist or composer, the scientist is a master of abstraction,' she said. The difference was that 'the artist communicates a personal view; the scientist seeks simple models which explain and predict the behavior of nature.' But both were driven by the same curiosity — the same refusal to accept that what is visible is all there is. Geller's own career exemplified this: she had expected to prove that large cosmic patterns were rare, but instead discovered galaxies arranged 'on thin surfaces around vast dark regions, like soap bubbles, 200 million light years across.'