If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying - it more likely signifies that they have worked hard in the past to burn the programs into the circuitry. Consciousness is called in during the first phase of learning and is excluded from the game playing after it is deep in the system.

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

Who we can be begins with our molecular blueprints - a series of alien codes penned in invisibly small strings of acids - well before we have anything to do with it. We are a product of our inaccessible, microscopic history.

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.

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

Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.

It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.