"No important discovery is ever made without a 'mad' guess."

"The Astonishing Hypothesis is that 'You,' your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free will, are in fact no more than the behavior of a vast a…"

"The brain is a machine assembled not to understand itself, but to survive."

"Religion is a delusion."

"We are nothing but a pack of neurons."