Markram Quotes

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

Henry Markram

#2. It was not my intention whatsoever for the Japanese government to try to get me out of trouble. And I really appreciate the Japanese government for all they have done for me.

Robert Jenkins

#3. 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

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

Henry Markram

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

Henry Markram

#6. Normally, Finns wait for a couple of years and watch Aki's films on television. But it is as though the international reputation of 'The Man Without a Past' caused them to go and see it at the cinema.

Kati Outinen

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

Henry Markram

#8. Relative' is a duality!

Dada Bhagwan

#9. Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.

Hans Vestberg

#10. 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

#11. I do not believe it makes sense to say that nuclear weapons are inherently evil. In certain circumstances, they can play a positive role - as they have in the past. But clearly they have a power to do great harm.

Des Browne

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

Henry Markram

#13. And this title, retired Major Ryland, gives you authority over my MasterCard?

Billi Jean

#14. The day humans cease playing with their imaginations, is the day the empires fall!

Anonymous

#15. Come on, Trouble. Let's go before you start farting bunnies and rainbows or some shit. Luke started laughing hard, and clamped his hand over his stomach, squeezing his brown eyes almost shut.

C.L.Stone

#16. 99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

Henry Markram

#17. I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#18. 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

#19. Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.

Oswald J. Smith

#20. 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

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

Henry Markram

#22. I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.

Dean Koontz

#23. To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.

Theodore Roosevelt

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. I really enjoy playing that everyman part because that part is us, the audience. And you need somebody inside a comedy to tether the absurdity to reality.

Jason Bateman

#27. People are afraid of detail and complexity.

Henry Markram

#28. One must become a book before one can know what is inside it.

Don DeLillo