“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort”
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“And a human being whose life is nurtured in an advantage which has accrued from the disadvantage of other human beings, and who prefers that this should remain as it is, is a human being by definition only, having much more in common with the bedbug, the tapeworm, the cancer, and the scavengers of the deep sea.”
― Cotton Tenants: Three Families
― Cotton Tenants: Three Families
“All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.”
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
“The brain is a far more open system than we ever imagined, and nature has gone very far to help us perceive and take in the world around us. It has given us a brain that survives in a changing world by changing itself.”
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
― The Brain that Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science
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