We’ve done fMRI scans of people taking the ‘Reading the Eyes’ test, and what we’ve found is that the amygdala lights up in trying to figure out people’s thoughts and feelings. In people with autism, they show highly reduced amygdala activity. Simon Baron-Cohen Read Quote
The thing that’s carried over from my visual-art education into what I do musically is my openness. Black Thought Read Quote
When you live in Paris, and fashion is such a point of pride for the French, it’s always around and you’re very much exposed to it from an early age. It was always something I knew about and really liked. Joseph Altuzarra Read Quote
We suddenly saw how people reacted in the event of massive social upheaval, and the way that the little problems in your life don’t go away. You don’t stop being frightened of spiders just because the world’s blown up. Simon Pegg Read Quote
I think it’s counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don’t. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts. Mario Andretti Read Quote
His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours. F. Scott Fitzgerald Read Quote
The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of a more general trend: the decline of science in the United States. As its interest in science wanes, the country loses ground to the rest of the industrialized world in every measure of technological proficiency. Neil deGrasse Tyson Read Quote
I’ve got a lot of belief in Aaron Gordon and he’s one of the reasons that I took the job here with the Magic. When a guy cares as much as he does and works as hard as he does, that impacts the group. And that type of attitude is infectious. Frank Vogel Read Quote
The truth is that when a man has a child, and it’s a girl, and he doesn’t change as a man, he’s not much of a man. Rod Lurie Read Quote
