Alternatives Quote by Walter Gilbert

“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.” quote by Walter Gilbert — Download Open 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 through the conflict of viewpoints.”

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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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,…

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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.

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The best project is one that asks a novel question.

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I am afraid that those comments go back to the late 80's. At that time I was a skeptic - the argument based on Koch's postulates to try to distinguish between cause and association. Today I would regard the success of the many antiviral agents which lower the virus titers (to be expected) and also resolve the failure of the…

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Error is far more common than fraud which probably comprises 1 percent or a tenth of a percent of the literature.

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