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

From David Eagleman

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

From David Eagleman

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

From David Eagleman

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

From David Eagleman

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years.

From David Eagleman

The same stimuli in the world can be inducing very different experiences internally and it's probably based on a single change in a gene. What I am doing is pulling the gene forward and imaging and doing behavioural tests to understand what that difference is and how reality can be constructed so differently.

From David Eagleman

There are always wonderful mysteries to confront.

From David Eagleman

What has always surprised me when I walk into a bookstore is the number of books that you can find that are written with certainty. The authors tell some story as though it's true, but they don't have any evidence that it is true!

From David Eagleman

I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

From David Eagleman

There are an infinite number of boring things to do in science.

From David Eagleman

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