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My interest in biology was pretty much always on the philosophical side.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

My interests span biology, though sometimes I feel like an anachronism, somebody from the Victorian era when there weren't so many boundaries dividing the sciences.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

I like writing about biology, not doing it.

I like problems at the borders of disciplines. One of the reasons that neurobiology of learning and memory appeal to me so much was that I liked the idea of bringing biology and psychology together.

There is more and more data indicating that there is a biological basis to your political views.

It doesn't matter whether it is chemistry or immunology or neuroscience: I just do research on what I find interesting.

Perhaps arising from a fascination with animals, biology seemed the most interesting of sciences to me as a child.

The biology of mind bridges the sciences - concerned with the natural world - and the humanities - concerned with the meaning of human experience.