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01 / evaluation
“I think of optogenetics as a tool for discovering how to repair the brain, but then you can build very practical technologies to try to help people.”
02 / evaluation
“On the other hand, I think that anything that advances the study of human behavior, given its murkiness and complexity, is much to be desired.”
03 / evaluation
“Brian Kobilka, who recently won the Nobel Prize for solving the structure of the G-protein-coupled receptor — and for context, one-third of all drugs target this class of molecules, so it’s a very, very important class of drugs — he lost his funding because he wasn’t making progress fast enough.”
04 / evaluation
“If somebody critiques a proposal, but they’re doing it from a vantage point that doesn’t see a certain part of the proposal as valuable because they’re missing an underlying piece of knowledge, or they’re evaluating a proposal — based upon opinion — that, if we think about the logical underpinnings of it, the rationale is actually pretty solid in terms of its being linked to ground-truthable sciences, like physics and chemistry.”