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

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.

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.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.

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