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

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

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

I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals... We tend to hear the sound of a digital clock, for example, as "tick-tock, tick-tock" - even though it is actually "tick tick, tick tick.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your words, and cannot be deceived by them; but what he grasps he grasps with infallible precision, namely the expression that goes with the words, the total, spontaneous, involuntary expressiveness which can never be simulated or faked, as words alone can, too easily.