You've never heard of an English lover. Only an English patient.

[As a young man ] I came to the conclusion that the church was just a bunch of fascists that supported Franco. I stopped going on Sunday mornings and watched the birds with my father instead.

Nothing new that is really interesting comes without collaboration

The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.

Ultimately, we'll help the people we discriminate against if we try to understand more about them; genetics will lead to a world where there is a sympathy for the underdog.

No good model ever accounted for all the facts, since some data was bound to be misleading if not plain wrong.

The brain is the last and grandest biological frontier, the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe. It contains hundreds of billions of cells interlinked through trillions of connections. The brain boggles the mind.