Polly Toynbee Zitate

Englisches Zitat von Polly Toynbee als Bild

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Polly Toynbee

Deutsche Übersetzung

Es ist jetzt möglich, die Zufriedenheit der Menschen ziemlich genau zu bestimmen, indem man sie fragt, durch Beobachtung und durch Messung der elektrischen Aktivität im Gehirn, von schrecklichen Schmerzen bis hin zu sublime Freude.

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