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Once, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry wrote, "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea ..." As a scientist and a teacher, I like to paraphrase this to read that we scientists need to teach our students to long for the endless immensity of the sea that is our ignorance.

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Some of the best engineers would rather quit than be micromanaged, especially when the job market is hot, and it’s so easy to switch jobs.

And since I'm realistic, rather than grandiose, I don't claim that the ability to control the function of the nervous system will at once unravel all its mysteries.

Sticking wires into the brain is obviously rather crude.

We can now actually interfere with their psychology in rather profound ways, as I'll show you in my last example, which is directed at a familiar question.

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