I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

Usually the opposite of what we fear is our greatest fear.

If you maintain a healthy diet, or at least are smart about your food choices, you'll still see the pounds come off.

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.

Everything starts within your own mind. The physical choices you make, drain your power or give you power. If your power is low, then you stay in lower levels of mind and you don't see opportunities.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

The major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think.

Golf has always been a game where you have to control both ends of the club.

I'm working for the people of Maine, not the whales of Maine.

Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.