Quotes by David Eagleman

“There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spo...”

“Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.”

“It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.”

“Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.”

“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”

“Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.”

“.. we are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them”

“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 of flui...”

“We open our eyes and we think we're seeing the whole world out there. But what has become clearand really just in the last few centuriesis that when you look at the electro-magnetic spectrum we are...”

“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 palette of at...”

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

“We know ourselves very little. We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe; far out on a distant edge, hearing a little of ...”

“As Gazzaniga put it, "these findings all suggest that the interpretive mechanism of the left hemisphere is always hard at work, seeking the meaning of events. It is constantly looking for order and...”

“You gleefully say, I just thought of something!, when in fact your brain performed an enormous amount of work before your moment of genius struck. When an idea is served up from behind the scenes, ...”

“If you ever feel lazy or dull, take heart: youre the busiest, brightest thing on the planet.”

“Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.”

“Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.”

“Evolve solutions; when you find a good one, don't stop.”

“We are not at the center of ourselves, but instead like the Earth in the Milky Way, and the Milky Way in the universe far out on a distant edge, hearing little of what is transpiring.”

“When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's fa...”