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

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.

The brain abhors discrepancies.

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.

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

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.