The Minute You Succumb To Outside Pressure,

Any Ape Can Reach For A Banana, But Only Humans Can Reach For The Stars.

One Of The First Things We Teach Medical Students Is To Listen To The Patient By Taking A Careful Medical History. Ninety Percent Of The Time, You Can Arrive At An Uncannily Accurate Diagnosis By Paying Close Attention, Using Physical Examination And Sophisticated Lab Test To Confirm Your Hunch (and To Increase The Bill To The Insurance Company).

People Often Ask How I Got Interested In The Brain; My Rhetorical Answer Is: 'how Can Anyone Not Be Interested In It?' Everything You Call 'human Nature' And Consciousness Arises From It.

A Genius Is Somebody Who Seemingly Just Reaches Out Of Nowhere.

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.