Quote

Our reality depends on what our biology is up to.

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
Seizures
Biology
Depends
Reality

More quotes by David Eagleman

Image
Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
David Eagleman
Image
Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.
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
To a space alien or a German Shepherd dog, two humans would be indistinguishable, just as attractive and unattractive space aliens and German Shepherd dogs are difficult for you to tell apart.
David Eagleman
Image
Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.
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
It is the most wondrous thing we have discovered in the universe, and it is us.
David Eagleman
Image
You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.
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
Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
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
As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.
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
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
Who you are depends on the sum total of your neurobiology.
David Eagleman
Image
We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.
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
...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. 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