You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep… — 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
