“Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.”

“A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain ti...”

“The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly...”

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name...”

“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palett...”