The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the…

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree…

— Jeffrey Kluger

The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis,…

— Gary Zukav

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

— David Eagleman

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

— Adam Savage

“The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in…

— Burkhard Bilger

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species.

— Amit Goswami

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as…

— Louise Leakey

The way I would live my life is: never do something in real life that I would not want to write about in my…

— Siddharth Katragadda

I don't really think of my essays as being about myself. I know it sounds insane, but I just don't think of them as…

— Sloane Crosley

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

— Anonymous

I caught a cold and didn't have time to work on my autobiography.

— Julie Doucet

“As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir…

— Craig Briggs

“Someday, I want to write an unauthorized autobiography of myself.”

— David McMullen-Sullivan

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis