Nonhuman primate imaging is maturing into a solid subfield within basic and translational neurosciences. In the present issue of Neuron, Milham et al. (2018) present a data repository to openly share anatomical, functional, and diffusion-based neuroimaging data from monkeys.Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how his role in that battle fits into the larger picture, and how his own success will influence the war as a whole. This statement, attributed to Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, also holds for neuroscience. We are all working within our little molecular, synaptic, neuronal, mesoscale, areal, or behavioral niches. We tend to claim truths based on our limited and fragmented experiences, just as in the parable of the blind men and the elephant. Yet, we should all know how our research fits into the larger multi-scale picture of the brain and how the success of our small, individual studies will influence our ultimate understanding of the human brain. This goal can only be achieved by employing complementary measurement tools tuned to different spectra, spanning multiple orders of magnitude along the temporal (7) and spatial (9) domains.For centuries, neuroscience was dominated by post-mortem anatomy complemented by behavioral and lesion studies. The advent of single-cell electrophysiology proved a major impetus for brain research. Extra-and intracellular singleunit studies still provide the most precise spatiotemporal resolution information about the functional roles of the elementary building blocks of the nervous system. Despite the prodigious power of single-cell electrophysiology, however, such measurements alone are insufficient for cracking the code of the human brain.