Thomas R. Insel Quotes

When results are shared freely amongst the biological community, as has been done for the worm and the Human Genome Projects, specialist scientists can move much more rapidly towards their goals.

Medical engineering is one of the areas in which the traditional 'silo' structures of university disciplines have not encouraged collaboration.

One of the things that I think makes me successful is the way in which I collaborate with others. In my opinion, nothing great is ever the product of one mind. It's always a consequence of some sort of self-critical collaboration.

I just want to keep doing things completely different from the other. I just want to keep working with great people, great filmmakers and great actors and just building on that experience.

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

Britain's great strength is its innovative, design and engineering natural ability and we're not using it.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Basically, the way I do it is I get to work with a bunch of people; get a bunch of great people together, and you'll be able to get something cool on the other side.

It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a great financial system.

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

Every great achievement is but a small peak in the mountain range of contributions.

You can have a phenomenal technology with bad people; you're not gonna have much success. You can have mediocre technology with great people; they'll figure out a way to make a buck.

That is the great pleasure of working with great directors. You get to look at the world through many different prisms. I guess I love talent, whatever form it takes.

I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

St. Louis has always been a great center for medicine. It has been a leader in the nation since the early part of the 20th century. Along with that, we've been a leader in medical science and biomedical science and innovation in medicine.

From a scientific standpoint, Aspergers and autism are one syndrome. Aspergers is part of the autism spectrum, not a separate disorder.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

Anyone that tells you what does or what doesn't cause autism is simply not basing that on facts.

I believe in the power of shared data and technology to help build a better future.

Today's world requires a different leadership style - more collaboration and teamwork, including using Web 2.0 technologies. If you had told me I'd be video blogging and blogging, I would have said, 'No way.' And yet our 20-somethings in the company really pushed me to use that more.

To take on the jobs of tomorrow, students must become more than good test takers. They need to become makers who design, sketch, build, and prototype. And their classrooms will need more than a chalkboard and a set of textbooks.

I came up with the Enveloper when I was 20 and it took my dad and me several months to develop the initial concept into a working model.