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Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

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.

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

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.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

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.

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

Some brains are easy to hack into, and other brains are nearly impossible to hack into because they are so complex.