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Neuroscience over the next 50 years is going to introduce things that are mind-blowing.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Going Introduce Mind-Blowing Neuroscience Next Over Things Years

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Part of the scientific temperament is this tolerance for holding multiple hypotheses in mind at the same time.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Holding Hypotheses Mind Multiple Part Same Same Time Scientific Temperament Time Tolerance

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The three-pound organ in your skull - with its pink consistency of Jell-o - is an alien kind of computational material. It is composed of miniaturized, self-configuring parts, and it vastly outstrips anything we've dreamt of building.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Alien Anything Building Composed Consistency Dreamt Kind Material Organ Parts Pink Skull Vastly Your

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A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy.

~David Eagleman

Topics: About Billions Brain Connections Galaxy Given Makes Many Means Milky Way Neighboring Neurons Single Stars Ten Thousand Tissue Typical Way

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I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Ignorance Life Our Really Science Teaches Think Vastness You I Think

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We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Afterlife Any Cosmos Happening Knows Most Really Understand Who

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I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Century Decade Extremism First Going Remembered Think Time I Think

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As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

~David Eagleman

Topics: American American Literature British Literature Rice Undergraduate University

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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

Topics: Better Either Every Feel Get Letters People Point Point Of View Religion Represents Than Understanding View Week Who Worldwide

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I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

~David Eagleman

Topics: Always Bounce Legs Sitting

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: Unknown

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