The boundary between neurology and psychiatry is becoming increasingly blurred, and its only a matter of time before psychiatry becomes just another branch of neurology.

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.

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

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

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

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

In fact, on one occasion, a rather pedantic experimental psychologist was telling him about a long, complicated experiment he had done, incorporating all the proper controls and using considerable technical virtuosity. When he saw Crick's exasperated expression he said, "but Dr. Crick, we have got it right - we know it's right," Crick's response was, "The point is not whether it's right. The point is: does it even matter whether its right or wrong?"