Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

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

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

The continuous networks of neural circuitry accomplish their functions using multiple, independently discovered strategies. The brain lends itself well to the complexity of the world, but poorly to clear-cut cartography.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

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.

We believe we're seeing the world just fine until it's called to our attention that we're not.