Walter Gilbert Quotes
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out of one's pocket and say, 'Here is a human being; it's me!'
The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints.
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics instead.
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
