Date: September 2, 2011
"We speak of exerting will power, of forcing ourselves to go to work, of restraining ourselves and of controlling our temper, as if it were an unruly dog."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
Date: September 2, 2011
"The 'will' in willpower is not some mysterious 'free will,' a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
Date: September 2, 2011
"The disasters reveal a limitation of the muscle metaphor: certain evolutionarily prepared drives seem to withstand even the most bulked-up powers of will."
preview | full record— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)
Date: 2011
"Marx, his mind as hard and brilliant as a diamond, knew he would emerge the victor in any battle of wits."
preview | full record— Gabriel, Mary
Date: October 7, 2011
"In the wayward note, the bumps and curves of the author's mind seem to be laid plain on the paper."
preview | full record— Horowitz, Alexandra
Date: April 25, 2011
"If Eagleman's body bears no marks of his childhood accident, his mind has been deeply imprinted by it."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"The brain is a remarkably capable chronometer for most purposes."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"Like a racing engine, her mental clock went faster the hotter it got."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: April 25, 2011
"The most recent neuroscience papers make the brain sound like a Victorian attic, full of odd, vaguely labelled objects ticking away in every corner."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard
Date: June 27, 2025
"Quite often the thing that people respond to in my books is the train – the train wreck – of thought."
preview | full record— Dyer, Geoff (b. 1958)
