“Imagine for a moment that we are nothing but the product of billions o...” — David Eagleman Quote

“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 fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”

“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 fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, that trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, that this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and that these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. To me, that understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.”

“Bilinçdışından her zaman dolaysız bir yanıt alamıyorsak, içerdiği bilgiye nasıl erişiyoruz peki? Bazen iş, sezgilerinizin size söylediklerini biraz kurcalamakta biter. Öyleyse bir arkadaşınız size iki seçenek arasında karar veremediğinden bir daha yakındığında, ona sorunu çözecek en kolay yolu gösterin: yazı-tura atmak. Hangi seçeneğin yazı, hangisinin tura olduğunu belirledikten sonra parayı havaya atsın. Burada önemli olan, para düştükten sonra kapalı hislerini değerlendirebilmektedir. Paranın ona yapmasını "söyledikleri" karşısında belli belirsiz de olsa rahatlamış gibiyse, bu onun için doğru seçim demektir. Ama tutar da kararını yazı-turaya bağlamanın saçma sapan bir şey olduğunu söylerse, aslında diğer seçeneği yeğlediğine dair bir ipucudur bu.”

“All disciplines of science are built on the causality of the relationships governing related events. Yet the theory of evolution is built upon the idea of accidental changes that resulted in complex living systems. I was unable to comprehend how the notion that an infinite number of random accidents systematically happened to produce living species, and kept improving these beings, is justified.”

“It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.”

“The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated; distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.”

“One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.”

“The feeling of a free, personal, individual choice is the product.”