People are afraid of detail and complexity.

99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. Its just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

Think of a forest, then imagine taking 10,000 trees and squeezing them together until there is essentially no space between them. That's what the neocortical column looks like.

There are few scientists in the world with the resources I have at my disposal.

The best way to figure out how something works is to try to build it from scratch.

As scientists, we need to not be afraid of the truth.

Drug discovery is terribly expensive, just to find out how one drug could or could not work and all its side effects.

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's just too big. In a piece of the brain the size of a pinhead there are 3,000 pathways like a city with 3,000 streets.

Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all have their own understanding of how the brain functions and is structured. How do you get them all around the same table?