We won't really understand the brain until we can make models of it which are analog rather than digital, which nobody seems to be trying very much.

The idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.

We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.

The pain of childbirth is not remembered. It's the child that's remembered.

The thing that makes me most optimistic is China and India - both of them doing well. It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.

There are two different ways of looking at the universe; and it's the same universe with two different windows. The science window gives you a view of the world, and the religion window gives you a totally different view. You can't look at both of them at the same time, but they're both true.

No matter how far we go into the future, there will always be new things happening, new information coming in, new worlds to explore, a constantly expanding domain of life, consciousness, and memory.