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

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

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.

Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.