Great Throughts Treasury

"If you've ever tried to catch a cockroach, it's hard because they can feel you coming."

"I think the goal of innovation is having the patience to try different things. When we bring in undergrads that are trying to learn how to do science for the first time, they don’t have the patience to go through the headaches, the walls. If it doesn’t work, they move on to something else. And you have to be careful enough to observe what’s happening even in failure. It could mean that there’s something else there we just can’t explain yet. Every once in awhile we get lucky as scientists and something happens. Unexpected results are the best thing you can get in science."

"This is the exact same technology that’s used to treat Parkinson’s disease and make cochlear implants for deaf people. If we can get these tools into hands of kids, we can start the neurological revolution."

"The common currency of the brain are the spikes in the neurons. These are the neurons that are inside of the antenna, but that’s also what your brain sounds like. Your thoughts, your hopes, your dreams, all encoded into these spikes. People, this is reality right here — the spikes are everything you know!"