Science quotes on curiosity and not fooling yourself

It's a kind of scientific integrity, a principle of scientific thought that corresponds to a kind of utter honesty—a kind of leaning over backwards.

A wealth of data indicate that deliberate neuroplasticity (your brain’s ability change in response to specific intended experiences): 1) requires focus during learning 2) actual rewiring occurs in sleep 3) is accelerated by increasing adrenaline immediately POST learning

In summary, the idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

Most are adept at cycles of focus followed by rest in the form of weekends, vacation, etc. Learning how to engage work-rest cycles on shorter time scales (daily hourly, etc) creates an outsized effect on productivity & health.

AI is probabilistic while crypto is deterministic.

The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span.

AI is amplified intelligence, not artificial intelligence.

All I ask is that we are honest about what the science says.

If you're picked on and you're stressed, you're going to age faster.

The more intense the stimulus, the greater the adaptation to a degree.

The mitochondria are actually the most important in any part of your body.

The sheer stress causes your endothelial cells lining your arteries to adapt.

The elastic band of sleep deprivation can stretch only so far before it snaps.

All calories are equal, the same way each mile per hour on a gauge is the same.

If you insist on using the technology without understanding how it works you are likely to fail.

A "fast and furious" approach to training neural networks does not work and only leads to suffering.

The Analytical Engine weaves algebraic patterns, just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.

The way I think about it is longevity means how do we live longer? I think that means years longer, a decade longer.

As one of my medical school professors liked to point out, the most common "presentation" of the disease is a sudden, fatal heart attack.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge, so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

Very often specific knowledge is at the edge of knowledge.

Error is just as important a condition of mental progress as truth.

On an evolutionary basis, if you go back thousands of years, status is a much better predictor of survival than wealth is.