The Brain Abhors Discrepancies.

Even Today No Computer Can Understand Language As Well As A Three-year-old Or See As Well As A Mouse.

Yet As Human Beings We Have To Accept-with Humility-that The Question Of Ultimate Origins Will Always Remain With Us, No Matter How Deeply We Understand The Brain And The Cosmos That It Creates.

Your Conscious Life Is An Elaborate After-the-fact Rationalization Of Things You Really Do For Other Reasons.

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.

In Fact, On One Occasion, A Rather Pedantic Experimental Psychologist Was Telling Him About A Long, Complicated Experiment He Had Done, Incorporating All The Proper Controls And Using Considerable Technical Virtuosity. When He Saw Crick's Exasperated Expression He Said, "but Dr. Crick, We Have Got It Right - We Know It's Right," Crick's Response Was, "the Point Is Not Whether It's Right. The Point Is: Does It Even Matter Whether Its Right Or Wrong?"