In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

Yet sometimes the world judges females by a different standard and seeks to punish them unjustly.

Love is the essence, fragrance, and beauty of life.

Love is like candy floss. you crave it and it looks very promising, but if you try to satisfy your hunger with it, there is nothing. Only a sweet aftertaste - if you're lucky.

Fear usually benefits the feared

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

The Miami Dolphins have to be taken seriously. Here's a team that seems to be jelling.

The broader question if Sarah Palin becomes vice president, will she be shortchanging her kids or will she be shortchanging the country?

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

Too many employers have said that they are unable to find skilled workers.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.