It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Odor carries a great deal of information, including information about a potential mate's age, sex, fertility, identity, emotions, and health.

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead - like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe - far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.