(26 quotes found)
“We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.”
Walter Gilbert
“Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.”
“The best project is one that asks a novel question.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The really fascinating thing about research is the new science, but to get to it, you have to get past that first level.”
“The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.”
“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.”
“We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.”
