Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. — 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… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Each cell sends electrical pulses to other cells, up to hundreds of times per second. If you represented each of these trillions… — 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.… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
If you measure someone's brain and see very little activity during a task, it does not necessarily indicate that they're not trying… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
You gleefully say, "I just thought of something!", when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“So who you are at any given moment depends on the detailed rhythms of your neuronal firing. During the day, the conscious… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, I, Chuang Tzu, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“This moment of lucidity does not last long. But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching… — 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
