Any Ape Can Reach For A Banana,

Great Art Allows You To Transcend Your Mortal Frame And To Reach For The Stars. I Think Great Science Does The Same Thing.

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.

Science Is Like A Love Affair With Nature; An Elusive, Tantalising Mistress. It Has All The Turbulence, Twists And Turns Of Romantic Love, But Thats Part Of The Game.

What The Artist Tries To Do (either Consciously Or Unconsciously) Is To Not Only Capture The Essence Of Something But Also To Amplify It In Order To More Powerfully Activate The Same Neural Mechanisms That Would Be Activated By The Original Object.

The Visual System Of The Brain Has The Organization, Computational Profile, And Architecture It Has In Order To Facilitate The Organism's Thriving At The Four Fs: Feeding Fleeing, Fighting, And Reproduction.