Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

[W]hen the martyr's righteous forebrain is exploded by the executioner's bullet and his mind disintegrates, what then? Can we safely assume that all those millions of neural circuits will be reconstituted in an immaterial state, so the conscious mind carries on?

In some ways, I had a traditional 'old South' upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an inoculum of the military ethic that is still with me today: honor, duty, loyalty.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

Every kid has a bug period... I never grew out of mine.

I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.