There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Imbalance of reason and emotion may explain the tenacity of religion in societies: world religions are optimized to tap into the emotional networks, and great arguments of reason amount to little against such magnetic pull.

Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.