Scientists have made extraordinary advances in…

We at Google have made tremendous advances in understanding language. Our knowledge graph has been fundamental to that. The new algorithm that we launched…

— Amit Singhal

We want to blame people who have brain disorders - they should somehow be able to magically rise above it. It's a profound misconception.

— Drew Pinsky

The origin of brain disease is in many cases predominantly dietary. Although several factors play into the genesis and progression of brain disorders, to…

— David Perlmutter

It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now…

— John O'Keefe

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to…

— Matt Haig

Although many philosophers used to dismiss the relevance of neuroscience on grounds that what mattered was the software, not the hardware, increasingly philosophers have…

— Patricia Churchland

“brains are not static hunks of tissue but flexible and adaptive organs that change throughout our lives. The term used to describe this new…

— David DiSalvo

I think the greatest work in social psychology from the 1950s and '60s is enormously important. I wish every high school kid could take…

— Jonathan Haidt

A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of…

— John Eccles

“The brain consists of many small networks of neurons that connect to other networks, like this: Just a basic understanding of how my brain…

— Darius Foroux

One of the difficulties in understanding the brain is that it is like nothing so much as a lump of porridge.

— Richard Gregory

I'm tremendously optimistic about the future of my discipline, yet understanding the brain is so difficult that we neuroscientists need help.

— Sebastian Seung

We have to remain humble about our understanding of the brain, because even our most powerful tools remain pretty blunt instruments for decoding the…

— Thomas R. Insel

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

— Henry Markram

“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes information to…

— David DiSalvo