Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
David EaglemanSözler ve Alıntılar
If a blind person passed her finger repeatedly over the bumps of Braille, but had no motivation to learn it, no rewiring would occur, because the right neuromodulators would not be present.
Every man can, if he so desires, become the sculptor of his own brain.
—SANTIAGO RAMÓN Y CAJAL (1852–1934), neuroscientist and Nobel laureate
Just as the plant seeks sunlight and the bacteria seeks sugar, the brain seeks information.
Your brain adjusts itself according to what you spend your time on, as long as those tasks have alignment with rewards or goals.
The Chinese have an expression: “An hour with a wise person is worth more than one thousand books.”
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.
—MARTIN HEIDEGGER
As Honoré de Balzac once said, “Memories beautify life, but only forgetting makes it bearable.”