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.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

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

If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.

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

The first thing we learn from studying our own circuitry is a simple lesson: most of what we do and think and feel is not under our conscious control.