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

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

The visual system of the brain has the organization, computational profile, and architecture it has in order to facilitate the organism's thriving at the four Fs: feeding fleeing, fighting, and reproduction.

Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but thats part of the game.

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.

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

Your conscious life is an elaborate after-the-fact rationalization of things you really do for other reasons.