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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 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.

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

We cannot experimentally map out the brain. It's 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.

I think we're all fascinated and a little mystified by how the brain works. One of the most mysterious of the physical sciences is neurological science.

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

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

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

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.