It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

Reductionism is not the right viewpoint for everything, and it certainly won't explain the relationship between the brain and the mind. This is because of a feature known as emergence. When you put together large numbers of pieces and parts, the whole can become something greater than the sum.

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

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

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

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.

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.