Dehaene Quotes

#1. Reading is listening to the dead with our eyes. (page 325, Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene, 2009)

Francisco De Quevedo

#2. Clearly, Nell was going crazy. (Well, she certainly had the hair for it.)

Lesley Kagen

#3. Nothing we are told, nothing we read prepares us for the feelings we have as a new parent holding our baby, and knowing that we also hold their life in the balance.

Kim John Payne

#4. I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#5. The great problem with poisoning by Bitterness was that the passions - hatred, love, despair, enthusiasm, curiosity - also ceased to manifest themselves. After a while, the embittered person felt no desire at all. They lacked the will either to live or to die, that was the problem.

Paulo Coelho

#6. I do not mean, of course, that we can always accurately express our conscious thoughts with Proustian accuracy. Consciousness overflows language: we perceive vastly more than we can describe.

Stanislas Dehaene

#7. I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

Julian Ovenden

#8. But these factory people, who on earth wears cotton that can afford linen?

Elizabeth Gaskell

#9. All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Philip Jose Farmer

#10. Science often progresses by carving out new distinctions that refine the fuzzy categories of natural language.

Stanislas Dehaene

#11. I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

Clare Balding

#12. Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

Jon Stewart