Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.

...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.

We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

Asleep vision (dreaming) is perception that is not tied down to anything in the real world; waking perception is something like dreaming with a little more commitment to what's in front of you.

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.

All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.