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

Vienna is relatively small. And it had wonderful salons, opportunities for people to get together. There was a lot of interaction between scientists and non-scientists, between Jews and non-Jews, between artists, writers and scientists, including medical scientists.

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

Self-portraits are a way of revealing something about oneself.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

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