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

Without ducking responsibility, what's wrong with medicine today is that it is predicated on providing treatment, not on reducing suffering. Not on solving problems.

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

Lofty questions about the mind are fascinating to ask, philosophers have been asking them for three millennia both in India where I am from and here in the West - but it is only in the brain that we can eventually hope to find the answers.

What the neurology tells us is that the self consists of many components, and the notion of one unitary self may well be an illusion.

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

Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.