Edward Boyden Quotes

For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.

Edward Boyden

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• A common mistake people make regarding dining rooms is to buy a matching set of table and chairs, which can be monotonous. I like to mix guest chairs in one style and head chairs in another for a more interesting, dynamic look.

  

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• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

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• I've never been all that interested or aware of what people are thinking about me or saying about me. I think that has kept me safest and sanest.

  

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• I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

  

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• It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.

  

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• People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'

  

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• When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

  

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• I can unite the people of Israel, so I won't speak about controversial issues, which divide the people.

  

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• The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

  

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• No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.

  

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• People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

  

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• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

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• So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

  

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• It's just kinda irritating to me that we're awarding people in mixed martial arts for trying to move away and not finish the fight.

  

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• People think New York is crazy and busy, but it's actually a great place for lazy people to live.

  

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• Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

  

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• I think that when you're kind of just shoved out there and you have to be tough and you're facing tough people and people are saying bad things about you, that all of a sudden, you have to become a little less sweet.

  

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• When I graduated high school, I bought a guitar and, at first, didn't really think I'd get into the songwriting thing as much as I did. But after learning a few songs of other people's to play on the guitar, I got bored with that and just started writing songs on my own, and that's kinda how it came about.

  

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• Joni uses a lot of alternate tunings; that is, instead of tuning the guitar in the customary way, she tunes the strings to pitches of her own choosing. ...Joni will talk compellingly and passionately about alternate tunings for hours, comparing them to different colors that van Gogh used in his paintings.

  

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• On the whole, I have quite a low opinion of men.

  

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• I had a Latin master who, for no rational reason whatsoever - I was a very quiet kid at school - just hated me.

  

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  

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• The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology (drugs), electrical pulses, and so on. But none of these technologies are precise. With optogenetics, we can aim light at a single cell, or a set of cells, and turn just that set of cells on or off.

  

  Edward Boyden
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