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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

David Eagleman

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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
David Eagleman
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A mere 400 years after our fall from the center of the universe, we have experienced the fall from the center of ourselves.
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If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them.
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What a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
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Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
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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.
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I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.
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