Memory results from a process of continual re-categorization which, by its nature, must be procedural and involve continual motor activity and repeated rehearsal.

Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

Each brain is exposed to different circumstances. It's very likely that your brain is unique in the history of the universe.

Consciousness allows you the capacity to plan.

I loathe it when they [English teachers] are bullied by no-nothing parents or cowardly school boards.

While the photos at the D.M.V. (New York) will still be taken in color, the engraving is done in grayscale, hence the Ansel Adams feel.

I may be a Jewish scientist, but I would be tickled silly if one day I were reincarnated as a Baptist preacher.

If poor people knew how rich rich people are, there would be riots in the streets.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

It has often been observed that the repercussion of poetic language on prose language can be considered a decisive cut of a whip.

A small business person has Uncle Sam as a partner, a partner who puts up no money, does no work, and wants 30 or 40 percent

I grew up thinking that singing was my security.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.