Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

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Believe you can and you will.

Mature Woman: Is a woman who has lived her life enough to understand what she wants, and she is confident in knowing who she is without question.

Speaking of sleeping bags, has anything ever had a less creative name?

Right foot, left foot, hemorrhage.

The world doesn't pay you for what you know, it pays you for what you do.

There is nothing scarier than a mediocre man with a mission.

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

And as to me, I know nothing else but miracles

The first thing I had to start with was, you know, we don't have a war. We don't have a depression, we don't have a Cold War.