David Eagleman Quotes

As your trillions of new connections continually form and re-form, the distinctive pattern means tha...

Each of us is on our own trajectory – steered by our genes and our experiences – and as a result eve...

So why does the world appear stable to you when you’re looking at it? Why doesn’t it appear as jerky...

Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done s...

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consume...

Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.

That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had s...

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is...

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who the...

There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body i...

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 ...

All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrough...

There's someone in my head, but it's not me."Pink FloydDavid Eagleman

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

As Carl Jung put it, “In each of us there is another whom we do not know.” As Pink Floyd sang, “Ther...

The deep secret of the brain is that not only the spinal cord but the entire central nervous system ...

Behavior is the outcome of the battle among internal systems.

Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming to...

Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. ...

Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.

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

As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisph...

If an epileptic seizure is focused in a particular sweet spot in the temporal lobe, a person won´t h...

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

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

You gleefully say, “I just thought of something!”, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amo...

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead — like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky ...

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clear—and ...

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

Many „pathogens“ (both chemical and behavioral) can influence how you turn out; these include substa...