It is essential to understand our brains in some detail if we are to assess correctly our place in this vast and complicated universe we see all around us.

The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he’ll fight and die for it.”[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011]

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are...

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously...