What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

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.

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

Yes, if it is meant to be, it will be. In the meantime, create your own fate. Plan big and dream bigger.

Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons.

I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

The majority never has right on its side.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.

It took me to about maybe 16, 17 or 18 or something to realise I was absolutely useless at everything else except for playing guitar and writing words

Both tolerance and respect are empty virtues until we actually understand whatever it is we are supposed to be tolerating or respecting.