16 Quotes by Henry Markram

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

People are afraid of detail and complexity.