American - Scientist | April 25, 1971 -
My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
David Eagleman
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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.
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There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.
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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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My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.
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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 imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.
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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.
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There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.
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What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!
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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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