We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.

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.

It’s funny how we say a person ‘made’ us when they actually broke us.Sort of like how I say ‘funny’... but I actually mean sad.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

How often do the poor in the US get to stand in front of their nation's Marie Antoinette's and shove the stale, mass-produced cake of lower class reality back into their mouths?

To be and not to be, that is the quantum question

Your endurance is strongly influenced byyour fundamental myth about the fighting.

I don't know whether when I was 20 years old or 25 years old if somebody would have come along with incredible wisdom whether I would have really listened.

The advancement of all sciences, especially where there has been such a radical change, have been attended with persecution.

How much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

I do not use the language of my people. I can take liberties with certain themes which the Arabic language would not allow me to take.