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

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

Even though its common knowledge these days, it never ceases to amaze me that all the richness of our mental life - all our feelings, our emotions, our thoughts, our ambitions, our love life, our religious sentiments and even what each of us regards us his own intimate private self - is simply the activity of these little specks of jelly in your head, in your brain. There is nothing else.

A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.

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

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.

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.