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.

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

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

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.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

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 often ask how I got interested in the brain; my rhetorical answer is: 'How can anyone NOT be interested in it?' Everything you call 'human nature' and consciousness arises from it.