We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

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

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.

Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique.

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

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

... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty.