Markram 4 Quotes

#1. The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.

Prince Philip

#2. 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.

Henry Markram

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

Henry Markram

#4. She'd be dead before the memories and pain were finally gone; she knew it, accepted it, and dealt with it.

Catherine Coulter

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

Henry Markram

#6. I was always interested in curing the brain.

Henry Markram

#7. 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?

Henry Markram

#8. A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials.

Henry Markram

#9. Now that you're there, where everything is known-tell me:
What else lived in that house besides us?

Anna Akhmatova

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

Henry Markram

#11. There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.

Brian Cox

#12. 99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

Henry Markram

#13. All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond. Your brain today is very, very different from what it was when you were 10 years old, and yet you may have profound memories from when you were 10.

Henry Markram

#14. You stimulate the neo-cortex, it produces a symphony. But it's not just a symphony of perception. It's a symphony of your universe. Your reality.

Henry Markram

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

Henry Markram

#16. I think today is already sucky enough without splinters in my ass.

A.S. King

#17. I've got this." Apollo stepped forward. His fiery armor was so bright it was hard to look at, and his matching Ray-Bans and perfect smile made him look like a male model for battle gear. "God of medicine, at your service.

Rick Riordan

#18. The brain builds a version of the universe and projects this version of the universe like a bubble all around us. So I can say with some certainty, 'I think therefore I am.' But I cannot say, 'You think therefore you are,' because you are within my perceptual bubble.

Henry Markram

#19. 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.

Henry Markram

#20. People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Henry Markram