A lot of good ideas are actually bad ideas because, since they sound good, everybody's already doing them. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I often try to think about, What sounds like a bad idea, but if you find the right plan of attack, it's actually a really good idea? I spend a lot of time really trying to systematically tackle problems from… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure,… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Synthesize new ideas constantly. Never read passively. Annotate, model, think, and synthesize while you read, even when you're reading what you conceive to be… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
It's not even known how many kinds of cells there are in the brain. If you were looking for a periodic table of the… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used,… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
There are many things that we still don't understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
