People wouldn’t even go into science unless there was something much bigger to be discovered, something that is transcendent. David Eagleman Read Quote
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! David Eagleman Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. David Eagleman Read Quote
Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time. David Eagleman Read Quote
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. David Eagleman Read Quote
Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. David Eagleman Read Quote
