Quotes from David Eagleman

I always bounce my legs when I'm sitting.

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.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

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

I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us.

My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.

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

I know one lab that studies nicotine receptors and all the scientists are smokers, and another lab that studies impulse control and they're all overweight.

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

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