David K. Randall > Quotes

“Touches of creative genius are simply exaggerated versions of what happens when our brains remove the clutter every night. With only important information left, the mind may then be free to make associations that it couldn’t see before.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Kinyoun believed in a future where scientists like him had rendered the concept of infectious disease moot, sparing the lives of innocent people. Instead, he had to face a present in which politics mattered more than honesty, and ignorance proved more powerful than medicine.”
― David K. Randall, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

“If we spend little time in REM sleep one night, our brain will compensate by prolonging that stage of sleep the next night. It doesn’t take a huge leap to assume that the brain considers this time important.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Within the first twenty-four hours of sleep deprivation, the blood pressure starts to increase. Not long afterward, the metabolism levels go haywire, giving a person an uncontrollable craving for carbohydrates. The body temperature drops and the immune system gets weaker. If this goes on for too long, there is a good chance that the mind will turn against itself, making a person experience visions and hear phantom sounds akin to a bad acid trip. At the same time, the ability to make simple decisions or recall obvious facts drops off severely. It is a bizarre downward spiral that is all the more peculiar because it can be stopped completely, and all of its effects will vanish, simply by sleeping for a couple of hours.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Though midday naps are most closely linked with Spain and other Latin cultures, they were once popular throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. Even today, most state-owned firms in China give their workers two hours for lunch. The first is used for eating and the second, for sleeping.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Without lightbulbs, televisions, or street lamps, the subjects in his study initially did little more at night than sleep.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“A man can no more be made into a rat-catcher by giving him a rat trap than he can become a soldier by being provided with a rifle.”
― David K. Randall, Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

“На каждые два часа бодрствования должен приходиться час сна, и организм ощущает, когда эта пропорция нарушается.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Nature has a habit of placing some of her most attractive treasures in places where it is difficult to locate and obtain them. —CHARLES DOOLITTLE WALCOTT,
FOURTH SECRETARY OF
THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

“living.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“Those who could stand his bluster would have to pass a test he called “trials by fish,” in which he left students in a room with decomposing specimens and told them to make close observations of the minute stages of decay. “In six weeks you will either become utterly weary of the task, or . . . be so completely fascinated . . . as to wish to devote your whole life to the pursuit of our science,” he wrote.”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

“Разум отбирает то, что намерен хранить и использовать в дальнейшем, и отсеивает второстепенные сведения, освобождая место для информации, которую получит на следующий день.”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“(He once paid a jailer for the severed head of a Black prisoner who had died in custody and, while carrying it in a bag back to his laboratory, slipped on some ice; the head went tumbling down a snowy hill and into the open door of a cottage, where Owen raced inside and grabbed it without stopping to calm the terrified people who lived inside.”
― David K. Randall, The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

“Sleep”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“«В значительной степени именно женщины, а не мужчины управляют эмоциональным климатом в отношениях, — говорит Троксель. — Если жена не выспалась, она становится раздражительнее и болтливее. Муж реагирует на ее придирки, а не раздувает конфликт самостоятельно».”
― David K. Randall, Dreamland: Adventures in the Strange Science of Sleep

“What is the chief end of man? To get rich. In what way? Dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.”
― David K. Randall, The King and Queen of Malibu: The True Story of the Battle for Paradise