With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

People think of art and science as being fundamentally opposed to each other, because art is about celebrating individual human creativity, and science is about discovering general principles, not about individual people. But in fact, the two have a lot in common, and the creative spirit is similar in both.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

With the arrival of humans, it has been said, the universe has suddenly become conscious of itself. This, truly, it the greatest mystery of all.

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.

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