List of Jonah Lehrer Quotes

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Jonah Lehrer
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It is ironic but true: the one reality science cannot reduce is the only reality we will ever know. this is why we need art. by expressing our actual experience, the artist reminds us that our science is incomplete, that no map of matter will ever explain the immateriality of our consciousness.
Art Reality Ironic
And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.
Thinking Answers Might
I want to give people theories, i want to expose them to scientific stories that force them to re-evaluate the way they use these three pounds of meat inside their head.
People Giving Meat
I always wanted to be a scientist, i always thought i'd be a scientist, that was the narrative i was carrying around. i worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but i realized i just wasn't good at science. i didn't have the discipline for it.
Years Discipline Labs
Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.
Creativity Process Term
Every creative story is different. and every creative story is the same. there was nothing. now there is something. it's almost like magic.
Creative Magic Different
Design is the conscious imposition of meaningful order.
Meaningful Order Design
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. they pry the mind open. and that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.
Cities Ideas Mind
The great ages did not perhaps produce much more talent than ours,' [t.s.] eliot wrote. 'but less talent was wasted.
Age Talent Produce
Like a work of art, we exceed our materials. science needs art to frame the mystery, but art needs science so that not everything is a mystery. neither truth alone is our solution, for our reality exists in plural
Art Reality Needs
By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. the ratio is reversed in households on welfare.
Encouragement Children Average
Knowledge can be a subtle curse. when we learn about the world, we also learn all the reasons why the world cannot be changed. we get used to our failures and imperfections. we become numb to the possibilities of something new
Imperfection World Reason Why
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