American - Scientist | March 21, 1932 -
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
Walter Gilbert
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Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
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The best project is one that asks a novel question.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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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.
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Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
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I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
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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.
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.
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