The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.

A marine protozoan is an aqueous salty system in an aqueous salty medium, but a man is an aqueous salty system in a medium in which there is but little water and most of that poor in salts.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind the evidence that this organ contains in some recorded form the basis of one's whole conscious life. It contains the record of all our aims and ambitions and is essential for the experience of all pleasures and pains, all loves and hates.

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

The principles now being discovered at work in the brain may provide, in the future, machines even more powerful than those we can at present foresee.