When medicine failed my child, I developed a crackpot theory: Life is something we need to stop correcting. My boy was a pocket universe I could never hope to fathom. Every one of us is an experiment, and we don't even know what the experiment is testing.
-- Theo (N/A paragraph 4)

Importance: Theo disagrees with the assessments of the doctors who have seen and diagnosed Robin and attempted to medicate him with psychoactive drugs. He believes, as stated in this quote, that there is nothing wrong with Robin that needs to be corrected, that Robin is simply different from other people. As a scientist, Theo thinks of life as an experiment, and believes each of us should be free to be ourselves, living and exploring as we think best.

I didn't know how to be a parent. Most of what I did, I remembered from what she used to do. I made enough mistakes on...
-- Theo (N/A paragraph 4)