Quotes by : Joshua Foer

...education is the ability to retrieve information at will and analyze it. But you can't have higher-level....

learning texts is worth doing not because it's easy but because it's hard.

A meaningful relationship between two people cannot sustain itself only in the present tense.

No one who set out to design a form of communication would ever end up with anything like English, Mandarin,....

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by....

Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it. You can exercise daily and eat healthily and live a long....

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate....

Our brains are obviously capable of astoundingly fast and complex calculations that happen subconsciously.....

Our ability to find humor in the world, to make connections between previously unconnected notions, to....

Over the last few millennial, we've invented a series of technologies … that have made it progressively....