Quote by David Eagleman

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

Visual cortex is fundamentally a machine whose job is to generate a model of the world.

— David Eagleman

If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: you're the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.

— David Eagleman

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

— David Eagleman

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“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

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