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

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

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.

Yet as human beings we have to accept-with humility-that the question of ultimate origins will always remain with us, no matter how deeply we understand the brain and the cosmos that it creates.

A genius is somebody who seemingly just reaches out of nowhere.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

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.