Valentino Braitenberg

Person · Open Library

Works

15

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Group

Origin

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Active from

1982

Active to

1990

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. A new and rapid colorimetric determination of acetylcholinesterase activity

   · 1961 · cited 23,211x

2. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

   · 2020 · cited 13,365x

3. <i>Planck</i>2015 results

   · 2016 · cited 9,871x

4. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project

   · 2013 · cited 8,576x

5. The Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) pilot analysis: Multitissue gene regulation in humans

   · 2015 · cited 4,854x

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Quotes

• “A structure made up of fine threads, so many and so fine that even the strongest magnification of the microscope was hardly sufficient to allow all of them to be seen clearly. Some of the threads ran together in bundles and in layers in specific directions; others lay seemingly randomly distributed every which way through the tissue. Embedded in this felted mass of fibers, it was possible to discern spherical structures, the nuclei of the nerve cells...”
• “Ad Aertsen succeeds in allowing his sense of humour to shine through the deep seriousness of his scientific ethos. He also has a very balanced attitude to the question of "theory or experiment".”
• “Imagine the inside of St. Peter’s in Rome filled with a huge quantity of fibers around a millimeter in diameter that crisscross the building in every direction creating a firm mat – then you have an idea of what the brain looks like when magnified a thousand times.”
• “This is an exercise in fictional science, or science fiction, if you like that better. Not for amusement: science fiction in the service of science. Or just science, if you agree that fiction is a part of it, always was, and always will be as long as our brains are only miniscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.”
• “We will talk only about machines with very simple internal structures, too simple in fact to be interesting from the point of view of mechanical or electrical engineering. Interest arises, rather, when we look at these machines or vehicles as if they were animals, in a natural environment. We will be tempted, then, to use psychological language in describing their behavior. And yet we know very well that there is nothing in these vehicles that we have not put there ourselves.”
• “It is actually impossible in theory to determine exactly what the hidden mechanism is without opening the box, since there are always many different mechanisms with identical behavior. Quite apart from this, analysis is more difficult than invention in the sense in which, generally, induction takes more time to perform than deduction: in induction one has to search for the way, whereas in deduction one follows a straightforward path.”

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