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

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

Brains are like representative democracies. They are built of multiple, overlapping experts who weigh in and compete over different choices.

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

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.