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15 quotes by Henry Markram

Henry Markram (Hebrew: הנרי מרקרם, born 28 March 1962 ) is an israeli Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland and director of both the Blue Brain Project and the Human Brain Project.
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99 percent of what you see is not what comes in through the eyes. It is what you infer about that room.

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

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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... →

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I was always interested in curing the brain.

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All evidence indicates that the neuron does not reset. The synapses do not reset. They are always different. They're changing every millisecond.... →

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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... →

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Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians.... →

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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... →

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

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

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People are afraid of detail and complexity.

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

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

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