Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

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.

Just breathe the beauty of life.

Money cannot buy health, but I'd settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.

Art stands in opposition to all the bad things that happen in life, which is where physicians stand. That's what doctors do-affirm life. And that's what artists do.

There are some dogs that are gigantic that look like they shouldn't be in existence.

There is no substitute for love and caring and compassion and human beings helping one another.

That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.

One can't even know what it means to be lost in reality. For instance, it is easy to know whether you are lost or not in the Sahara desert, but to be lost in reality! This is much more complex!

Everybody needs some inspiration, Everybody needs some motivation, mix it up with some imagination, and use your natural gifts.

No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do not control temperature.

By altering our attitudes we can alter our lives.