Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.

The brain is the black box: the final frontier.

The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.

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

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.

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.

Neuroscience is now a very important research area in biology. We are now understanding a lot more about brains in babies, as well as children and adults.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

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.

There is no scientific study more vital to man than the study of his own brain. Our entire view of the universe depends on it.

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

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.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

I was interested in big unknowns, and the brain is one of the biggest, so building tools that allow us to regard the brain as a big electrical circuit appealed to me.

Brain research is the ultimate problem confronting man.

The brain is the most complex, challenging scientific puzzle we have ever tried to decode.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.