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. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
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. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a CD out… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
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… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
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,… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
Biology will tell you a lot of things, but there are many that it can not explain and you need to look at physics… — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
