List of Jonah Lehrer Quotes

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.

And So We Keep On Thinking, Because The Next Thought Might Be The Answer.

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.

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.

Creativity Is A Catchall Term For A Variety Of Distinct Thought Processes.

Every Creative Story Is Different. And Every Creative Story Is The Same. There Was Nothing. Now There Is Something. It's Almost Like Magic.

Design Is The Conscious Imposition Of Meaningful Order.

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.

The Great Ages Did Not Perhaps Produce Much More Talent Than Ours,' [t.s.] Eliot Wrote. 'but Less Talent Was Wasted.

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

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.

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