Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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.

A gentle spirit, a kind heart.

Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.

There are some things I can't control, & that's just the way it is.

Italians make you laugh and break your heart.

You need to open up your soul and have a weep-a-thon.

Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.

I love this pedal to death. The only way you could keep me from playing one is by chopping off my legs!

After being let go from CBS and looking for a year for work, I will never catch myself complaining about being too busy.

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.