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

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

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.

The minute you succumb to outside pressure, you cease to be creative.

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.

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

Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.