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

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.

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.

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.

Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.

You called the guy you’re supposed to rescue a nerd, and you just referenced Star Trek. You don’t find that a bit nerdy?

I'm not going to get off the pony as long as they let me ride it.

If you're sitting around worrying about bills all day, it's hard to hear the guidance that's coming from the inside.

Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

I had turned my anxiety into my profession.

The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

Kids pick up and absorb a lot more than you think they do. I try to do what I think is right, and I try to lead by example.

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.