Theorizing is of course essential to make progress in understanding, but theorizing in the absence of knowing available relevant facts is not very productive.

It is surely important that the differences between coma, deep sleep, being under anesthesia, on the one hand, and being alert on the other, all involve changes in the brain.

Brains are not magical; they are causal machines.

Humility bids us to take ourselves as we are; we do not have to be cosmically significant to be genuinely significant.

It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.

If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.

In all probability, mental states are processes and activities of the brain. Exactly what activities, and exactly at what level of description, remains to be seen.

Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function.

I am less attracted to guesses about what cannot be done, than about making progress on a problem.

When that theory is isolated from known facts, it is likely not to be productive.

I have always wanted to give you the world, so I started giving you pieces of the oceans that kept us apart.

Mediation on the Holy Scriptures, awakens our mind on Christ Jesus.

Love is the divinity of life.

Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.

As long as NATO changes when the world is changing, we will be very important for the security of all our allies, including the United States.

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

Only when human beings are able to perceive and acknowledge the Self in each other can there be real peace.

That's wisdom you can take to the grave, and dig up when you need it!

The Greens have every right to run, that's what democracy is, and they should argue their point by saying how they think people should vote, not by telling us to be silent.

As a director, I also get to sit and watch actors and learn from them in a way that I don't get to do when I'm just acting.