There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients.

Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design.

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

Eccentricity is like having an accent. It's what "other" people have.