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

David Eagleman

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
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Neuroscientist
Psychologist
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University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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It is more parsimonious to assume that the sun goes around the Earth, that atoms at the smallest scale operate in accordance with the same rules that objects at larger scales follow, and that we perceive what is really out there. All of these positions were long defended by argument from parsimony, and they were all wrong.
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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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If you are a carrier of a particular set of genes, your probability of committing a violent crime goes up by eight hundred and eighty-two percent.
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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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