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

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

As Carl Jung put it, "In each of us there is another whom we do not know." As Pink Floyd sang, "There's someone in my head, but it's not me."

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.