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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/innate-mechanisms-endow-the-visual-system-with-highly-specific/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

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## More by Torsten Wiesel

> [The eye and brain are not like a fax machine, nor are there little people looking at the images coming in.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/the-eye-and-brain-are-not-like-a-fax-machine-nor-are-there-little/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience early in life is necessary for their maintenance and full development.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/innate-mechanisms-endow-the-visual-system-with-highly-specific/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/oh-no-i-was-afraid-of-that-i-d-better-go-and-hide/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destroy it. Germany…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/it-takes-a-long-time-for-a-country-to-build-a-strong-base-in-science/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/science-is-not-an-intelligence-test-intuition-is-important-knowing/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [In the early Sixties, having begun to describe the physiology of cells in the adult cat visual cortex, David Hubel and I decided to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/in-the-early-sixties-having-begun-to-describe-the-physiology-of-cells/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/after-forty-years-in-the-lab-i-was-asked-in-1991-to-become-president/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I established a new Laboratory of Neurobiology and continued…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/in-1983-i-became-the-vincent-and-brook-astor-professor-at-the/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/i-cannot-think-of-a-greater-symbol-of-human-resistance-and-courage/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

> [Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/torsten-wiesel/aside-from-my-work-my-interests-lie-in-the-arts-and-in-world-affairs/)

[Torsten Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/torsten-wiesel/)

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