Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other neurons in the brain. Based on this, people have calculated that the number of permutations and combinations of brain activity exceeds the number of elementary particles in the universe.

Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.

Curiosity illuminates the correct path to anything in life. If you're not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

People often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.