If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

Die mathematische Forschung besteht aus 10% Intuition und 90% Arbeit.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

Don't put anyone out of your heart, there's room for all.

I like using a 75-percent swing for wedge shots instead of full force.

It's like I was connected to the plumping system.

It's really hard to get any work done in my apartment when my bed is also in my apartment.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.