Historically, very few discoveries were made out of thin air. Most of the greatest insights depended upon the intellectual ecology in which the scientists lived. A certain critical mass of "new findings" occurred, and bright people all over the world found out about it, and several read the tea leaves the same way.

Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It requires only understanding.

Change often involves loss, so change can be a risky experience.

I have great confidence in human curiosity - even though I don't know what curiosity is from a biological point of view. One of its characteristics has got to be the willingness to explore.

The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.