Of course much remains to know, but we know how to learn: through scientific research.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him.

In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.