Awareness of your surroundings occurs only when sensory inputs violate expectations. When the world is successfully predicted away, awareness is not needed because the brain is doing its job well.

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

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