David Eagleman Quotes

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• There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
• We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
• Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as…
• I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.
• I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries…
• The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of…
• What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty.…
• A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a…
• I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a…
• My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my…
• All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
• It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.
• Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
• There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The…
• Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.
• Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.
• The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with…
• Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
• ...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
• We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and really just in the last few…

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