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

You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, your neural circuitry has been working on it for hours or days or years, consolidating information and trying out new combinations. But you take credit without further wonderment at the vast, hidden machinery behind the scenes.

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

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

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.

To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.