Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress.

I don't think biology is replacing the feeling experienced through art. Biology is capable of giving additional insights. It's a parallel, not a substitutive process.

Life is sort of a circle. You come back to a lot of the interests that you had early in life.

I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

It is this potential for plasticity of the relatively stereotyped units of the nervous system that endows each of us with our individuality.

In art, as in science, reductionism does not trivialize our perception - of color, light, and perspective - but allows us to see each of these components in a new way.

One of the wonderful things about Internet is its like a salon. It brings people together from different intellectual walks of life.

Possess. Have. Hold. Enjoy. Control. Dominate. Pick your verb, Ms. Fairchild. I intend to explore so very many of them.

They be marching hand in hand, like going to war.

When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. ~ Peggy Toney Horton

Analytical software enables you to shift human resources from rote data collection to value-added customer service and support where the human touch makes a profound difference.

War creates no absolutely new situation: it simply aggravates the permanent human situation so that we can no longer ignore it. Human life has always been lived on the edge of a precipice.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

It feels amazing to just be here and be able to share my jokes with the world. It's not so much about being a girl, it's about being a funny comic.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works most of the time.

Tomorrow or the next life - which comes first, we never know.