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.

Even though the outside world has not changed, your brain dynamically presents different interpretations.

One of the most impressive features of brains - and especially human brains - is the flexibility to learn almost any kind of task that comes its way.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

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.

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