It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously puzzling facts are neatly explained by the new hypothesis. One could kick oneself for not having the idea earlier, it now seems so obvious. Yet before, everything was in a fog.

You can do reverse engineering, but you can’t do reverse hacking.

Free will is located in or near the anterior cingulate sulcus.

A busy life is a wasted life.

It now seems very likely that many of the 64 triplets, possibly most of them, may code one amino acid or another, and that in general several distinct triplets may code one amino acid.

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".