David Eagleman Quotes

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• Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of…
• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse…
• Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
• Constant reminding ourselves that we not see with our eyes but with our synergetic eye-brain system working as a whole will produce constant astonishment as…
• Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
• Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
• You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
• Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.
• The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but…
• What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
• Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast to commit to atheism, and yet we know too much to commit to a particular religion. A…
• There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
• It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what's happening in your…
• What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
• I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
• Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.
• Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
• As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
• I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
• People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.

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