The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names in research.

Not everyone who has a savant skill I would equate with a genius.

Savant syndrome and autism, I think, are not disorders of brain structure, but they're disorders of brain function.

Savant syndrome, characteristically, consists of left hemisphere dysfunction coupled with right hemisphere emergence, and what you see in the savant are basically right brain skills.

We have medicalized a lot of things that I think are not really medical conditions.

There does seem to be a higher educational level in parents of autistic youngsters, and I guess that's something that we need to look into.

The narrower we define autism, and the more strictly we control for particular behaviors, the more likely we are to find what I think are the subgroups of autism.

We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.

I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

The acoustics seem to get louder

All these factors are only valuable if you're curious. But in any case, the more knowledge you have, the more things are open and available to you.

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

The radius vector describes equal areas in equal times.

Not only did I come out as a reality star that was very boisterous and vivacious and outspoken and all those things. I flipped that into money and respect. And a lot of people can't do that.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.