A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.

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

Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.

Even while it's true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons - as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms indisputably tell us - it does not logically follow that humans are best described only as pieces and parts.