If you give somebody a lot of questions to answer and then they walk by a bowl of candy, they are more likely to grab the candy because they're tired…

- Edward Boyden

One thing that I've been doing for a long time is to wake up really early. I try to get up around 4 or 5 in the morning, long before most of my lab m…

- Edward Boyden

Work backward from your goal.

- Edward Boyden

I would argue that if you understand how the cells of the brain are organized into circuits, almost computational circuits if you will, and we see ho…

- Edward Boyden

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 surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

- Edward Boyden

I spend a lot of time going over old conversation summaries. A lot of the old ones are about ideas that ended in failure, the project didn't work. Bu…

- Edward Boyden

Suppose there are some things that we don't understand about the universe, but if you understand human intelligence and you understand the gaps in ou…

- Edward Boyden

When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation…

- Edward Boyden