If you think backwards from a big problem, and you talk to all these other people who have skills and who think forward from their skills, it's very easy to form collaborations because everyone is incentivized to work together. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The skill-providers want to have more impact and solve problems; the problem people want new tools to get their problems solved. — 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
