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You can't imagine how much detail we know about brains. There were 28,000 people who went to the neuroscience conference this year, and every one of them is doing research in brains. A lot of data. But there's no theory. There's a little, wimpy box on top there.

The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how the heart pumps and how the kidney does what it does. To a certain degree, we have read the letters of the human genome. But the brain has 100 billion neurons. Each one of those has about 10,000 connections.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

The human brain is probably one of the most complex single objects on the face of the earth; I think it is, quite honestly.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

Our understanding of the human brain can be dramatically accelerated if we collect and share research data on an exponentially wider scale.