The brain internally simulates what will happen if you were to perform some action under specific conditions. Internal models not only play a role in motor acts (such as catching or dodging) but also underlie conscious perception.

The main thing known about secrets is that keeping them is unhealthy for the brain.

Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

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

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

When one part of the brain makes a choice, other parts can quickly invent a story to explain why. If you show the command "Walk" to the right hemisphere (the one without language), the patient will get up and start walking. If you stop him and ask why he's leaving, his left hemisphere, cooking up an answer, will say something like "I was going to get a drink of water."