I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Since you always lived inside your own head, you were much better at seeing the truth about others than you ever were… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“For thousands of generations, humans have lived the same sort of life cycle over and over: we’re born, we control a fragile… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you have certain problems with your brain but are raised in a good home, you might turn out okay. If your… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We're trapped on this very thin slice of perception ... But even at that slice of reality that we call home, we're not seeing… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t have motor seizures, but instead something… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system works this way: internally generated… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
When people fall in love, there´s period of up to three years during which the zeal and infatuation ride at a peak. The internal… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
