David Eagleman

“God realized that He had no concept of the skills required to run an organization of this magnitude.”

“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, that we are composed only of highways...”

“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.”

“Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palett...”

“There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.”

“The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imag...”

“There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.”

“The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly...”

“Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.”

“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 ti...”

“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.”