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Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.
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Love was not specified in the design of your brain it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
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People wouldn't even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent.
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Nothing is inherently tasty or repulsive - it depends on your needs. Deliciousness is simply an index of usefulness.
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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.
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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.
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As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.
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Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in the simplest explanation is probably correct, also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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When the brain activity is kindled in the right spot, people hear voices. If a physician prescribes an anti-epileptic medication, the seizures go away and the voices disappear. Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.
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