I'm doing the very best I can to hide my deepest desires and you're so stupid you understand it all wrong!

He confessed to giving her barbiturates to keep her unconscious, not only to trick the machines that monitored her, but also anyone who would want to examine her when he wasn't around.

We may be wrong about Tanya, but perhaps we were right about the killer's motive.

(Laughter) But, when I think of them, they are still babies to me, and I worry every day that the world will misjudge them.

How can the nervous system misinterpret an innocent sensation like the touch of a hand and turn it into the malevolent sensation of the touch of the flame?

So how can we be so collectively wrong by misreading or ignoring the science of the fact that when an instability has developed, and the system is ripe, any perturbation makes it essentially impossible to control?

No, I didn't think so, because it's come down to this, people: You're using the word incorrectly, and tonight I hope to show you how to put the "awe" back in "awesome."

It's making something that's pure dangerous in some way, and I think you're saying that that whole model just misunderstands how nature is.

A bad interview can lead you to forget details or misremember them while a good interview can forever change your life for the better.

First, just as we can misperceive the world, we can misperceive ourselves when the mechanisms of prediction go wrong.

Behavioral biologists have identified three defining hallmarks of deception by non-human animals: it must mislead the receiver, the deceiver must benefit, and it can’t simply be an accident.

It's not by a small one. They just -- they just misinterpreted the fact that the earth -- there's obviously some mechanisms going on that nobody knew about, because the heat's coming in and it isn't getting warmer.

What's interesting about high falls is that although we use airbags, and some airbags are quite advanced, they're designed so you don't slip off the side like you used to, if you land a bit wrong. So, they're a much safer proposition.

(Laughter) But from the Japanese perspective, it's their duty to protect those who don't know any better -- (Laughter) in this case, the ignorant gaijin -- from making the wrong choice.