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.

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

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

Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions and trillions of pulses in your brain by a single photon of light, the combined output would be blinding.

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

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

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.