Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

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.

It’s time to begin to believe that with God on our side we can build a prosperous nation and continent.

The night is the blink of a day

NEVER COUNT A SACRIFICE AS A COST

Let's not let the government sell us out. Let's fight for net neutrality.

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.

Every one is weary, the poore in seeking, the rich in keeping, the good in learning.

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

When I was little, I always sad that I wanted a brother, and now it's like having four of them!

I am the love of my life, the marriage between my mind and my body.