“Forget about having an identity crisis and get some identity capital. … Do something that adds value to who you are. Do something that's an investment in who you might want to be next.”
“If you take a brain out of the skull and you cut a thin slice of it, and you put it under even a very powerful microscope, there's nothing there. … It won't tell you anything.”
— Carl Schoonover
Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
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“[Images of the brain] are very beautiful, but they're also very powerful. They have great explanatory power.”
— Carl Schoonover
Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
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“If you're thinking of the brain as a computer, [the neuron] is the transistor.”
— Carl Schoonover
Carl Schoonover: How to look inside the brain
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