We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.

When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

We believe that these types of cells are actually more primitive and more flexible than the adult stem cells that would be found in bone marrow, ... They're much younger. They're more robust.