Henry Markram

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

— Henry Markram

I was always interested in curing the brain.

— Henry Markram

People are afraid of detail and complexity.

— Henry Markram

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

— Henry Markram

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

— Henry Markram

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead…

— Henry Markram

A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

— Henry Markram

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead…

— Henry Markram

You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe.…

— Henry Markram

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

— Henry Markram

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

— Henry Markram

Everybody agrees that the brain is a remarkable machine. It's capable of generating an enormous number of phenomena, some of them very…

— Henry Markram

All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond.…

— Henry Markram

The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So…

— Henry Markram

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all…

— Henry Markram

Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's…

— Henry Markram