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

My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.

If you're a thinking person, the liver is interesting, but nothing is more intriguing than the brain.

You can't 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.

If there is anything about your 'self' of which you can be sure, it is that it is anchored in your own body and yours alone. The person you experience as 'you' is here and now and nowhere else.

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.