David Eagleman Quotations

Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.

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.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

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

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

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.

The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass.

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

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

Humans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.