Henry Markram quotes

“I was always interested in curing the brain.”
-- Henry Markram

#Brain Quotes

“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.”
-- Henry Markram

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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.”
-- Henry Markram

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“Brains first and then Hard Work.”

“Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.”

“The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.”

“What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.”

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”

“All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain - and pretty much nothing else.”

“When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.”

“It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot”

“We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.11, Anchor

“Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.”