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

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.

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.

The brain abhors discrepancies.

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.

Any ape can reach for a banana, but only humans can reach for the stars.

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.