we still have a long way to go in terms of creating a rock-solid science that could match the certainty of, say, physics and biology. In the meantime… - Tom Butler-Bowdon

we all need a personal theory of what makes people tick.

If you have ever talked about having an “identity crisis” you have psychologist Erik Erikson to thank for inventing the term.

Truly creative people work for work’s own sake, and if they make a public discovery or become famous that is a bonus.

Between the stimulation received from the environment and our response, certain processes had to occur inside the brain, and cognitive researchers revealed the human mind to be a great interpreting machine that made patterns and created sense of the world outside, forming maps of reality.