My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

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.

From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption -- but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

In life, be daring, look for adventure, provide the service and love the nature.

We can't help but rejoice despite the circumstance.

The plum-colored night sky was shifting to pink to make room for the day, which looked as though it might turn out “glorious and whimsical, ” as the Key West Citizen had promised.

The vile are trampled beneath the feet of other pigs.

Wisdom is the right application of knowledge; and true education...is the application of knowledge to the development of a noble and Godlike character.

Without [the settlements] the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) [Israeli Defense Force] would be a foreign army ruling a foreign population.

Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

Print and web have profoundly different effects: The effect is immediate when people can click on links.