As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very late. I initially wanted to be an intellectual historian.

The problem for many people is that we cannot point to the underlying biological bases of most psychiatric disorders. In fact, we are nowhere near understanding them as well as we understand disorders of the liver or the heart.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.