One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much… — 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… — 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… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The brain is really hard to see. The whole thing is very large - the human brain is several pounds in weight… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
What I'm really interested in is this idea of a 'brain co-processor' - a device that can record from, and deliver information… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
If you could map out a human brain, an open question is, if you simulated it, would it be you? Now, as… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I think the definition will change as we learn more, but my working definition of solving the brain is: one, we can… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you… — 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
