Edward Boyden – Quotes

Unlike optogenetics, where there

Unlike optogenetics, where there are existing nonprofits that give away the DNA for free or at cost, expansion microscopy requires chemicals to be used, so having a company that makes the chemistry kit that anybody can use can save time. Edward Boyden

You can imagine over

You can imagine over very long timescales, perhaps far beyond the multi-decade time scale, we might be able to ask very deep questions about why we feel the way we feel about things, or why we think of ourselves in certain ways – questions that have been in the realm of psychology and philosophy but … Read more

One of the things

One of the things that got me transitioning from physical science to brain science was asking, Why do we understand so much about the universe? Edward Boyden

It\\’s actually kind of

It’s actually kind of weird that we can comprehend the law of gravity, or that we can understand quantum mechanics, enough at least to make computers. Edward Boyden

It\\’s surprising that the

It’s surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is. Edward Boyden

If our brain is

If our brain is understanding some parts of the universe and not understanding other parts, and those understandings are about the laws of physics that our brains are built on top of, then it’s kind of a loop, right? Edward Boyden

There are many things

There are many things that we still don’t understand about the universe, right? Einstein struggled to bring quantum mechanics and gravity together and never succeeded, and that’s a problem that to this day is not well understood. Well, maybe to comprehend some of these things, we need to augment our intelligence. If we do, who … Read more