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How to Change Your Mind: Michael Pollan on How the Science of Psychedelics Illuminates Consciousness, Mortality, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
“The Beyond, whatever it consists of, might not be nearly as far away or inaccessible as we think.”
Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
“Our neurons must be used … not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct.”
Sleep Demons: Bill Hayes on REM, the Poetics of Yawns, and Maurice Sendak’s Antidote to Insomnia
“Sleep acts … more like an emotion than a bodily function. As with desire, it resists pursuit. Sleep must come find you.”
The Power Paradox: The Surprising and Sobering Science of How We Gain and Lose Influence
“We rise in power and make a difference in the world due to what is best about human nature, but we fall from power due to what is worst.”
Primo Levi on the Spiritual Value of Science and How Space Exploration Brings Humanity Closer Together
“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity’s progress toward justice and peace.”
Conversations with the Earth: Geologist Hans Cloos on the Complementarity of Art and Science in Illuminating the Splendor of Nature and Reality
“There is another, inner way… which binds the artist to the world. He who walks this trail sees the beauty of the earth, and hears its music.”
Song of Two Worlds: Alan Lightman’s Poetic Ode to Science, the Unknown, and Our Search for Meaning, Illustrated by a Teenager in India
“One thousand questions, and each gives an answer, which then forms a question.”
How Pioneering Physicist Lise Meitner Discovered Nuclear Fission, Paved the Way for Women in Science, and Was Denied the Nobel Prize
“Science makes people reach selflessly for truth and objectivity; it teaches people to accept reality, with wonder and admiration, not to mention the deep joy and awe that the natural order of things brings to the true scientist.”
The Science of How Our Minds and Our Bodies Converge in the Healing of Trauma
“When our senses become muffled, we no longer feel fully alive… If you have a comfortable connection with your inner sensations … you will feel in charge of your body, your feelings, and your self.”
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