If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

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

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.