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.

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.

There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts. That idea of a rational man that was specially created went out the window when Darwin showed that we evolved from animal ancestors, that we have instincts, much as do animals, and that our instincts are very important. It was a much more sophisticated, nuanced, and rich view of the human mind.

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.

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