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

In the fetus, or a really young child, all the different brain areas are connected to each other, diffusely. And as the brain develops, the excess connections are turned off, so you get very specialized areas. So most people have really specialized talents. What happens in creative people is this pooling doesn't take place.

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

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.

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.

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

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