David Eagleman Quotes

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city. - David Eagleman

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time. - David Eagleman

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. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true! - David Eagleman

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows. - David Eagleman

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science. - David Eagleman

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront. - David Eagleman

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 miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building. - David Eagleman

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently. - David Eagleman

People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. - David Eagleman

Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. - David Eagleman

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