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.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

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.

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

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.

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.

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