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Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting around in the brain to the thought that pops up in your head and mine? There's something deeply mysterious about that. And if you're not struck by the mystery, I think you haven't thought about it.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

There are still so many questions to answer about the workings of the human body and, most mysterious of all, it is influenced by our state of mind.

After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.

Essentially, all expressions of human nature ever produced, from a caveman's paintings to Mozart's symphonies and Einstein's view of the universe, emerge from the same source: the relentless dynamic toil of large populations of interconnected neurons.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.

The more we learn of science, the more we see that its wonderful mysteries are all explained by a few simple laws so connected together and so dependent upon each other, that we see the same mind animating them all.

We've discovered the secret of life.

We take for granted how our mind puts everything together.