Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

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

Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

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

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

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.

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of individual nerve cells to produce behaviour, and how are these cells influenced by the environment...? The last frontier of the biological sciences – their ultimate challenge – is to understand the biological basis of consciousness and the mental processes by which we perceive, act, learn, and remember.