Quote

Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.

David Eagleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
David Eagleman
Creation
Ones
Empathize
Problems
Favor
Humanity
Empathy
Problem
Favors
Gods
Creatures
Among

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
All activity in the brain is driven by other activity in the brain, in a vastly complex, interconnected network.
David Eagleman
Image
People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
David Eagleman
Image
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
David Eagleman
Image
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 great lens with which to understand what matters to us.
David Eagleman
Image
At least 15 percent of human females possess a genetic mutation that gives them an extra (fourth) type of color photoreceptor - and this allows them to discriminate between colors that look identical to the majority of us with a mere three types of color photoreceptors.
David Eagleman
Image
If choices and decisions derive from hidden mental processes, then free choice is either an illusion or, at minimum, more tightly constrained than previously considered.
David Eagleman
Image
I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.
David Eagleman
Image
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
David Eagleman
Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
David Eagleman
Image
After all, across the population there are slight differences in brain function, and sometimes these translate directly into different ways of experiencing the world. And each individual believes his way is reality.
David Eagleman
Image
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 around.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
Image
There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.
David Eagleman
Image
All life will die, all mind will cease, and it will all be as if it had never happened. That, to be honest, is the goal to which evolution is traveling, that is the benevolent end of the furious living and furious dying.
David Eagleman
Image
What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
David Eagleman
Image
It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
David Eagleman
Image
...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
David Eagleman
Image
You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.
David Eagleman
Image
What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
David Eagleman