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“We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.”

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Antonio Damasio

Antonio Damasio is a renowned neuroscientist and cognitive scientist, born on February 25, 1944. He has made significant contributions to the study of the relationship between emotion, consciousness, and brain function. more

“So, you can define emotions very simply as the process of perceiving what is going on in the organs when you are in the throws of an emotion, and that is achieved by a collection of structures, some of which are in the brain stem, and some of which are in the cerebral cortex, namely the insular cortex, which I like to mention not because I think it's the most important, it's not.”

Thinking Important Process Emotion Brain Structure Collections Organs Stem Cerebral

Author:Antonio Damasio

“Emotion operates, very often when you think about how you react to the world, you know, something is happening to you, you're simply going along and you're being confronted by different things, not necessarily very important or significance for your ultimate life, but you are constantly reacting to the world.”

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Author:Antonio Damasio

“People who have had family members killed are able to forgive the murderer because that's the only way they can move on.”

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Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I'm always like, "Maybe I can drive the car. I can still fly the plane!"”

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Author:Ming-Na Wen

“I'm always excited to do the fight scenes.”

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Author:Ming-Na Wen

“A NASA astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut can't be creative. He has to follow a predetermined detailed checklist written by an engineer and if he gets a little creative he'll never fly again.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“When you have a transportation system that the price of propellant is essentially negligible something is very wrong. If you look at any other transportation system, a car, a motorcycle, a train, an oil tanker, an airliner, you name it; about a quarter to a third of the operating cost is buying the propellant.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

“Achieving something that has never existed in manned spaceflight and that is high volume and public access.”

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Author:Burt Rutan

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