Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as we notice, more and more often, how much of our perceptions emerge from our preconceptions.

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

Some men may be genetically inclined to have and hold a single partner, while some may not. In the near future, young women who stay current with the scientific literature may demand genetic tests of their boyfriends to assess how likely they are to make faithful husbands.

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

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.

A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.