"It turns out your conscious mind â€” the part you think of as you â€” is really the smallest part of what's happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information."

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Source : "Stray Questions for: David Eagleman". Interview with Blake Wilson, artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com. July 10, 2009.

David Eagleman

#Thinking Quotes #Brain Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“In order to create it is necessary to destroy; and the agent of destruction in society is the poet. I believe that the poet is necessarily an anarchist, and that he must oppose all organized conceptions of the State, not only those which we inherit from the past, but equally those which are imposed on people in the name of the future.”
“War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.”
“I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.”
“Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised.”
“Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.”
“All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.”
“The dirty little secret is that I grew up in a household where there were no carbohydrates allowed, ever. No cookies, no bread, no potatoes, no rice. My mother was very extreme in terms of what she served. Since I left home more than 40 years ago, I've been making it right for myself.”

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