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

Has it ever struck you ... that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going? It’s really all memory ... except for each passing moment.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

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

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

After the war, the Austrians just denied their role in it all. They didn't teach it in school. But since 1990 they have openly acknowledged their role in the Holocaust and I feel more comfortable in Austria. I feel a sort of reconciliation.

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