The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

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.

Following Christ is not a casual or occasional practice but a continuous commitment and way of life that applies at all times and in all places.

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series

I'd met Roscoe in Europe quite a few times over the years, and we'd say hi and so on, but this was the first time we'd actually played together.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

Your waistline is your lifeline

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

As a microbiologist, I am particularly concerned with Mr. Bush's blatant disregard for science.

What Korea and the U.S. both ultimately seek to achieve is the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program.

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.