Quote

A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.

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
Center
Mere
Universe
Fall
Years
Experienced

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.
David Eagleman
Image
Love was not specified in the design of your brain it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.
David Eagleman
Image
Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
Image
Modern neuroimaging is like asking an astronaut in the space shuttle to look out the window and judge how America is doing.
David Eagleman
Image
If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
David Eagleman
Image
The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.
David Eagleman
Image
There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
David Eagleman
Image
One of the most pervasive mistakes is to believe that our visual system gives a faithful representation of what is out there in the same way that a movie camera would.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
David Eagleman
Image
Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
David Eagleman
Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David Eagleman
Image
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.
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
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.
David Eagleman
Image
The majority of human beings live their whole lives unaware that they are only seeing a limited cone of vision at any moment.
David Eagleman
Image
This is what consciousness does: it sets the goals, and the rest of the system learns how to meet them.
David Eagleman
Image
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
David Eagleman
Image
You are part of a complex social network that changes your biology with every interaction, and which your actions can change.
David Eagleman
Image
Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.
David Eagleman
Image
I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
David Eagleman