Biological Inheritance Quotes by Walter Gilbert

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• The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
• 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…
• Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
• Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.
• Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing…
• Everyone wants a hand in the outcome, a piece of the knowledge.
• I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.
• Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.
• The best project is one that asks a novel question.
• The interaction of the variation in our genes is what's responsible for lots of our attributes and vigor.
• Today we try to identify a gene and then study its properties.

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