Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.
David EaglemanEvery atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.
David EaglemanHumans have discovered that they cannot stop Death, but at least they can spit in his drink.
David EaglemanWe spend our lives on a thin slice between the unimaginably small scales of the atoms that compose us and the infinitely large scales of galaxies.
David Eagleman