Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development. Deprivation experiments demonstrate that neural connections can be modulated by environmental influences during a critical period… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to investigate how the highly specific response properties of cortical cells emerged during postnatal development. — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in. — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development.… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued… — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs. — Torsten Wiesel Copy Share Image
