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The brain abhors discrepancies.

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.

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

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Ask, 'How are we different from the great apes?' We have culture, we have civilisation, and we have language to be celebrated as part of being human.