Three billion bases of DNA sequence can be put on a single compact disc and one will be able to pull a… — Walter Gilbert Human beings 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 Cells 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… — Walter Gilbert Ability 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 Animal 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… — Walter Gilbert Alternatives 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… — Walter Gilbert Answers Copy Share Image
Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties. — Walter Gilbert Genes Copy Share Image
The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought. — Walter Gilbert Doubt 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… — Walter Gilbert Agents 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… — Walter Gilbert Biology Copy Share Image
Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature. — Walter Gilbert Books Copy Share Image
The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor. — Walter Gilbert Attributes Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge. — Walter Gilbert Hands 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… — Walter Gilbert Community Copy Share Image
We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us. — Walter Gilbert Biology Copy Share Image
I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background. — Walter Gilbert Backgrounds Copy Share Image
The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance. — Walter Gilbert Biology Copy Share Image
In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among… — Walter Gilbert Common Copy Share Image
[Duesberg] is absolutely correct in saying that no one has proven that AIDS is caused by the AIDS virus. And he is… — Walter Gilbert Aids Copy Share Image
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. — Walter Gilbert Able Copy Share Image
Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself. — Walter Gilbert Belief Copy Share Image
It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you. — Walter Gilbert Change Copy Share Image