• Preface — Author mentions about the motivation in writing the book, which was mainly from a bunch of questions he gets asked after seminars in colleges, to whom he presents his decade worth of knowledge in neurology.

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“The world doesn’t need wonders, it needs more people to wonder”

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• He brings up a great point, he always looks upto exceptions
  • Why does only Iodine goes from solid to gas state without melting
  • Why can only tadpoles get their lost limbs and not adult frogs
• Because exceptions teaches us more than the things which are normal — this same philosophy is followed in the book where he studies people whom others “crazy” and leave, but author argues the real truth maybe hidden in them
  • One says they can talk to God
  • One says they feel their lost arm (phantom arm)
  • One can see cartoon characters in her blind spot in the eye
• He believes most of the ground breaking research has happened from simple experiments
  • Faraday visualizing magnetic fields with iron dust on a paper which was on top of a magnet
  • Galileo aiming the toy with two lens from a fair at the sky and discovering many astronomical facts
• People just need to wonder more, we are still no where close to understanding how the human brain works fundamentally, and there is no one algorithm or formula to describe it (which still needs time and research)