It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the brain, there is no such thing. I ….

I worry that we don't have a very good definition of consciousness yet which makes it hard to tackle..

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves..

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less som….

Life is an adventure - Savor every instant!.

We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually..

Remember, when we're conscious of something, that state is quite often generated by unconscious processes that happen right before it..

I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of….

These disorders - schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, depression, addiction - they not only steal our time to live, they change who we are..

The world is your playground - play with a sense of destiny..

Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now..

The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight - but the connections between brain cell….

Work backward from your goal..

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe?.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is..

Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conce….

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we f….

When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation….

One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab m….

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. Bu….

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see ho….