“The apparent wall between your body and the world is more like a picket fence. And between your mind and the world,… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience,… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
Our moral reasoning is plagued by two illusions. The first illusion can be called the wag-the-dog illusion: We believe that our own… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As modern-day neuroscience tells us, we are never in touch with the present, because neural information-processing itself takes time. Signals take time… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
“I was not born with a silver spoon in my mouth, nor did I have access to information like you do today… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
What Warcollier demonstrated is compatible with what modern cognitive neuroscience has learned about how visual images are constructed by the brain. It… — Dean Radin Copy Share Image
“The point is not to resist painful experiences or grasp at pleasant ones: that's a kind of craving - and craving leads… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“It's a general moral principle that the more power you have over someone, the greater your duty to use that power benevolently.… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Almost every single intellectual has been obsessed with an illustrious question - what drives morality! Yet none of them has been able… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“When it comes to our embedded beliefs, our relative intolerance to ambiguous and contrary information leads us in many instances to ignore… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“Genetics, accidents of birth or events in early childhood have left criminals' brains and bodies with measurable flaws predisposing them to committing… — Adrian Raine Copy Share Image
“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“That day, the great mind in neuroscience Michael A. Persinger, who is now a good friend of mine, made me realize that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“You can learn from brain scientists how to strengthen what's weak, make flexible what's rigid, and heal what might be broken.” — Jennifer Fraser Copy Share Image
I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around.… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In truth, there is no such thing as an “intuitive boundary” of a sensory state. That most philosophers take such states as… — István Aranyosi Copy Share Image
People try to apply directly results from the cognitive neurosciences directly to classroom practice and I have to tell you I am… — John Medina Copy Share Image
“How can we consider ourselves to be rational and proclaim that God is ineffable—beyond our frail human abilities to comprehend him—and in… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a specific reference to the… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
“On the path of awakening, it's natural to experience some upheaval, dark nights of the soul, or unnerving groundlessness when the foundation… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
From my studies of genetics and neuroscience I have come to believe that people fall into four broad personality types - each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
Barry L. Jacobs and colleagues from the neuroscience program at Princeton University showed that when mice ran every day on an exercise… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“The seat of consciousness and intelligence was from the earliest times regarded by the Egyptians as both the heart and the bowels… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
