"We assume that we have free will and that we make decisions, but we don't. Neurons do. We decide that this sum total driving us is a decision we have made for ourselves. But it is not."

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Source : "The Electric Brain". Interview with Lauren Aguirre, www.pbs.org. October 23, 2001.

Rodolfo Llinas

#Decision Quotes #Neurons Quotes #Driving Quotes

“You go from having fun doing something to having it become your life without you realizing it. It can be weird and dark, but every single time I have a dark thought that makes me think dark about that, I tell myself, "Stop, you're stupid. This is great."”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I had starred in more than 30 successful films, six in a row directed by Cecil B. De Mille.”
“Numbers instill a feeling for the lie of the land, and furnish grist for the mathematical mill that is the physicist's principal tool.”

Source : "Information: The New Language of Science". Book by Hans Christian von Baeyer, 2004.
“The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.”
“I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out there in August in 108 degree weather down in Texas.”
“I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.”
“The fact that a person loves one particular person is what is important; the life lesson, whether you are homosexual or heterosexual, is that you not be promiscuous, and true to one person.”

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